North from Amarillo

the long version

After eight long bloody years of drifting and warfare, Stretch McQuade came home. The ranch was run down: he had expected that but was willing to work to get it up and running again. What he didn't expect was to find his father crippled by a suspect 'accident' and tended to by a strange woman who seemed to have him under her control. Old enemies were waiting to settle old scores, but the newest, most dangerous enemy of all was Yankee Reconstruction. Someone had forgotten to tell them the war was supposed to be over.