A Rider of the High Mesa

A Rider of the High Mesa is a western short story by Ernest Haycox. Haycox was an American writer of Western fiction. Excerpt: "Suddenly he remembered that when this new plan was consummated he would have to leave the valley forever and at the thought of it he retreated to his desk and sat down. The heat and the grit and all the troublous elements were a part of him. Going back over the years, he remembered the flaring feuds, the shooting scrapes, and the torrid courthouse trials. There was vitality in this land that he knew he should never find in another."