The Devils Rope, Tim Washburn
The Devils Rope, Tim Washburn
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The Devil's Rope

Author: Tim Washburn

Narrator: Milton Bagby

Unabridged: 11 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/30/2022

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

The Ridgeway family faces their greatest challenge when a devastating drought threatens to spark an open range war, forcing them to fight for their ranch, their dream—and their lives.DEATH BY THE DEVIL’S ROPEIt’s the summer of 1883. A severe drought threatens to bankrupt the Ridgeway’s Rocking R Ranch and every rancher in northwest Texas. The cattle are thirsty and hungry. The ranchers are getting desperate. And a simple new invention called barbed wire—the devil’s rope—is their only defense against illegal herders grazing on their land. Percy Ridgeway and his brother Eli are working overtime to stake a fence around their sixty thousand acres. But someone keeps cutting the wires. The Ridgeways keep fixing them. And soon Percy is tangled in a high-stakes showdown with a thieving cattleman named Northcutt and his cutthroat henchmen. Let the battle begin …History would call it the Fence Wars of 1883. The Ridgeways would call it the summer they fought back—come hell or dry water.

About Tim Washburn

Tim Washburn graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BA in Journalism and currently lives in Edmond, Oklahoma.

About Milton Bagby

Milton Bagby, winner of the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration in 2017 and an AudioFile Earphones Award, has done radio and TV commercials for over twenty years. In 2011 he began recording voice-overs for audiobooks and to date has recorded over forty books for Audible, ACX, Books in Motion, and Radio Archives, among others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rob on January 26, 2025

This is the first western I’ve read from Tim Washburn, and overall I thought it was pretty solid. The Ridgeway family is likable, especially Percy, who’s pretty much the protagonist of this one, though there are quite a few supporting characters. I enjoyed the story of the two women making a life ch......more

Goodreads review by Denice on July 23, 2022

I love a good western, and this one is definitely good, maybe even great! Tim Washburn continues to expand the Rocking R Ranch's Rideway family and their commitment to building a Ridgeway dynasty in 1880's Texas. Drought is just the newest problem in a long list of what next? The story is set during......more

Goodreads review by Doug on November 11, 2020

Lots of action with multiple characters and adventures happening all the time. I feel that it missed having a unifying factor to pull it all together and provide a complete ending. I received an advanced digital copy of this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.......more

Goodreads review by Ed on January 20, 2021

The second book in the Rocking R series I hope there will be more installments to this series. I really enjoyed the characters and the story. The events of their lives and how they handled them make rhe bokk.......more

Goodreads review by Samantha on March 14, 2025

My first western. It was pretty good. I just felt it was a little repetitive. The same topic and written almost the exact same way would be there multiple times. The book could have been shorter without that.......more

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