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In the summer of 1901 in the Iron Mountain area of Wyoming, someone shot from ambush and killed a 14-year old boy. The kill shot hit him in the back and knocked him o his dad's horse. Some thought Tom Horn did it. They narrowed the search down to him, and got him to confess, they said. He never said. His arrest, trial, and execution by hanging commenced a controversy that roared through the Rocky Mountains for over 100 years. That true story is the historical predicate for this novel.

Ten Shoes Up, populated with horses, saddles, guns, and outlaws, is not a traditional "western". Angus lives alone on a mountain straddling the New Mexico/Colorado border. He doesn't talk much, and carries himself in a way that draws strangers to him like an anvil beckons the hammer. His world view is whatever he can see from the back of his horse. When he decides to come down off his mountain, "all hell breaks loose".