Top hand

Montana was a big territory in 1887, and the Broken T was one of its biggest spreads, sprawling over three counties--a good piece of Custer County, thirty-five sections of Power River County, and the middling chunk of Rosebud county. It was big enough that a man running from the law could hire on as a cowhand and be safe so long as he behaved himself--and as long as he never wanted to go back home. But no ranch was big enough to let a man hide fr...