• The Devil's Rope

  • The Rocking R Ranch Westerns, Book 2
  • By: Tim Washburn
  • Narrated by: Milton Bagby
  • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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By: Tim Washburn
Narrated by: Milton Bagby
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The Ridgeway family faces their greatest challenge when a devastating drought threatens to spark an open range war, forcing them to fight for their ranch, their dream—and their lives.

DEATH BY THE DEVIL’S ROPE

It’s the summer of 1883. A severe drought threatens to bankrupt the Ridgeway’s Rocking R Ranch and every rancher in northwest Texas. The cattle are thirsty and hungry. The ranchers are getting desperate. And a simple new invention called barbed wire—the devil’s rope—is their only defense against illegal herders grazing on their land. Percy Ridgeway and his brother Eli are working overtime to stake a fence around their sixty thousand acres. But someone keeps cutting the wires. The Ridgeways keep fixing them. And soon Perry is tangled in a high-stakes showdown with a thieving cattleman named Northcutt and his cutthroat henchmen. Let the battle begin …

History would call it the Fence Wars of 1883. The Ridgeways would call it the summer they fought back—come hell or dry water.

©2021 Tim Washburn (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

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If you like the wild west, you will love this book

This is the second book in the series and I recommend listening to them in order. You wouldn't have to but this book is a much richer experience if you read them chronologically. So much of what happens to the characters from book 1 really shapes who they are in book 2. It adds much more depth to the story and further bonds you to and makes you more invested in what happens to the characters you've come to love from book 1.

This a great western, it has touches of real documented history, barbed wire AKA the devil's rope was a real issue that impacted life in the old west and created hostilities among competing farmers. This book could seem slow, but the story does keep you engrossed as long you are as bonded to the characters as I was.

The narrator was excellent, he definitely helped make this a great listening experience.

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