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With Hoops of Steel

Florence Finch Kelly

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ad-shouldered, straight-backed figures sat their horses with constant grace, galloping abreast, neck to neck and heel to heel, without pause or slackened pace. The rhythmical, resounding hoof-beats made exhilarating music for their ears, and now and again Ellhorn’s yell went calling across the empty darkness or the sound of Mead’s or Tuttle’s gun cleft the air. On and on through the night they went, their wiry ponies with ears closely laid and muscles strained in willing compliance, the starry sky above and the long level of the plain behind them.

At Muletown they stopped to water their horses at the brimming pump-trough in the plaza and, as the thirsty creatures drank, Ellhorn glanced at the swinging starry Dipper in the northern sky again and said, “I reckon it’s three o’clock, boys.” Then on they went, clattering down the long adobe street, flanked by dim houses, dark and silent; and out into the rising edge of the pla. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Loosely based on the still-unsolved, tragic murder of Southeastern New Mexico Attorney, Albert Jennings Fountain in the late 1800s, Kelly’s novel constitutes the first true novel of the Western genre —beating Owen Wister to it by a couple of years.

The novel is part who-done-it mystery, part romance