Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Note on Language -- Part 1 -- 1. The Coldirons -- Part 2 -- 2. Tick Tick -- 3. Tamales -- 4. Twelve -- 5. Scrambled Eggs and Brains and Ripe Cantaloupe -- 6. The Dead Line -- 7. There Were Cattle -- 8. Webb Again -- 9. High Horse -- 10. Somewhere at Sea -- 11. Tock Tock -- 12. A Deeper Darkness -- Part 3 -- 13. A Wake -- 14. A Tail -- 15. A Hole -- 16. The Blackness -- 17. A Case -- Acknowledgments.
Summary
Set in 1884, Hell on the Border tells the story of Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves at the peak of his historic career.