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Phil Ward, Hal Agren, Milt Reiger, Dave Trego, and several others had gathered in Latigo for the awarding of the railroad bids. All were hopeful of winning a bid, but Reiger was confident that he would win the beef contract. When all was done, Agren had won the bid for supplying the rail ties and Ward had won both the grading contract and the beef contract. Reiger was furious, claimed he had been cheated and something crooked had gone on with the bids. With parting threats, he allowed his ranch foreman Trego to lead him from the room. After meeting with Fleming, the engineer in charge of the project, Ward and Agren decided to travel back to Ensign together to get started on their projects. On the way, they made an agreement that they would be ready to help each other if things went wrong. And things did go wrong. That night, two bushwackers shot at them as they sat by their campfire. And that was just the beginning of their troubles ...  Read more...