Death of a Cattle King by Wayne D Overholser

Death is the story of families settled in Oregon, ranching and learning to get along with each other in the days before statehood and the advent of any kind of reliable law. Sam Holt and Jason Bell are the patriarchs. There is a fence that is causing some of the trouble. Morgan Drew accompanied the Holt family west but seemed to be cut from a different fabric than Sam and Jason, wanting to get bigger, run out the small settler, taking what he wanted. A good read.