Rim of the Desert Author:Ernest Haycox Rim of the Desert is the powerful story of Jim Keene, tough, restless, proud, with a fiery temper and a will of iron. He rode a thousand miles to escape from trouble and then ran smack into it again in Cloud Valley, a land embroiled in a sizzling blood feud between cattlemen and homesteaders, a battle that was bound to blow the territory wide ap... more »art. But the nesters' fight became Keene's own cause, and for the first time certain men in the valley had real reason for fear.« less