01899cam a2200265 i 4500 550813452 TxAuBib 20220101120000.0 211115s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021950800 9781638082569 hardcover 1638082561 hardcover 9781638082606 paperback 163808260X paperback DLC eng rda DLC TxAuBib rda Gooden, Arthur Henry, 1879-1971. Call of the range / Arthur Henry Gooden. Thorndike : Center Point Large Print, 2022. pages cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "When Mark Destin arrived in La Cruz wearing a derby, he was taken for a tenderfoot dude. In a few hours, he had proved to that rough cow town that "tenderfoot" was not synonymous with "fool". He wore the clothes of a Bostonian, but his mind was as keen, his judgment of character as shrewd as any weather-beaten westerner's. Mark wanted to buy a ranch, and had been offered the Diamond D by A. B. Matoon, a land shark. He is considerably taken aback when young, pretty Janet Dunbar confronts him with the angry announcement that the Diamond D belongs to her and is not for sale. An unsuccessful holdup, the ransacking of his room, and an attempt on his life reveal that La Cruz is not a healthy place for Mark to be. He suspects that Matoon controls the town marshal and other shady characters in La Cruz, but he keeps up his pretense of being a gullible tenderfoot ready to do business with Matoon and Janet's devious stepbrother, Ray Wellerton, in an attempt to help Janet, he ex-foreman Buck Salten, and her neighbors, the Bennetts, outwit and outshoot their adversaries"-- Provided by publisher. 20220101.