Summary
In the scorching heart of Sunshine Valley, California, a sinister plot unfolds as 'Laughing' Larry Lawton and 'Sagebrush' Hilton are coerced into participating in a high-stakes extortion scheme, with the reservoir's water supply hanging precariously in the balance, while in New Orleans, the enigmatic Austin Sinclair, a wealthy ranch owner, receives a cryptic warning about a conspiracy to usurp his recently acquired Ghost City Ranch, prompting his daughter Alice to embark on a perilous journey to California, accompanied by her cousin, the intrepid aviator Ray Moreton, as they navigate treacherous landscapes, villainous agents, and treacherous cattle stampedes, all in a desperate bid to thwart the nefarious plans of the cunning Jasper Harwell
Synopsis
In Sunshine Valley, California, "Laughing" Larry Lawton and his pal, "Sagebrush" Hilton, are informed that unless the ranch owners place $10,000 in a designated spot on a certain day the reservoir supplying the valley with water will be drained. Just to show they aren't kidding, the extortionists have drained two feet of water already. In New Orleans, wealthy California ranch owner Austin Sinclair, now purchasing Ghost City Ranch in Sunshine Valley, receives word that a conspiracy is in progress to take the ranch away from him. He is unable to travel to California because of a disabled foot but his daughter Alice offers to go for him. She gets her cousin, Ray Moreton, an aviator, to take her in his aeroplane. Agents of Jasper Harwell, who is trying to get the ranch by unfair means, try to prevent the departure but the pair escape them and are soon on their way. The plane develops engine trouble a few miles short of their destination and they are forced to land. Alice borrows a horse from Lawton and is on her way to Ghost City Ranch but rides right in the path of a cattle stampede...end of Chapter One.
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