Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Prologue
Chapter 1: The First Barbed Wire War Was in Austin
Chapter 2: Barbed Wire, a Yankee’s Invention, Comes to Texas
Chapter 3: Cheap Land, Cheap Wire, and Expensive Cattle
Chapter 4: Cowhands Kill a Fence Cutter in Clay County
Chapter 5: Settlers and Barbed Wire Come to Brown County
Chapter 6: Governor Ireland Calls a Special Legislative Session, and Representative Odom Explains the Problem
Chapter 7: Fence Cutters Assassinate Ranger Benjamin Warren in Sweetwater
Chapter 8: Rangers Kill a Fence-Cutting Constable in Brown County
Chapter 9: Three Assassination Attempts on the Farmer Who Snitched
Chapter 10: Hell Breaks Loose in Coleman, and a Widow Suffers Fence Cutting
Photo Gallery
Chapter 11: Ranger Wounded, Cutter Killed at Green Lake, Edwards County
Chapter 12: Lawmen Stop Medina’s Fence Cutting but Suffer Revenge
Chapter 13: Tragedy and Death on a Clay County Fence Line
Chapter 14: Menard Fence Cutter Sent to the Penitentiary
Chapter 15: Ranger Has a Dynamite Solution for Navarro County
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index