The Badlands Beyond Author:Norman A. Fox Jess Loudon was tired of drifting, ready to hitch his ambitions to a star. A star like Peter Frome, the rancher chosen to bring law and order to Montana's badlands -- outside of the courts. But when Jess found an old friend dangling from a noose in a cottonwood tree, he began to wonder about Frome -- the man who had made him foreman of the L... more »ong Nine Ranch.« less