"Short, bald, and bespectacled, Frank Rule is not a typical Llano Estacado cowboy. While moving his family out of the Rio Grande Valley, an area tormented by Comancheros and bands of renegade Indians, disaster befalls the Rule family. Forced to live alone in the isolation of the Texas Panhandle, eventually Frank falls into periods of hallucination, where he is visited by the spirit of his dead wife at night and the devil during the day. Despite these...