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Lacey Van Schuyler Durango has been reared by her aunt and uncle down in the Texas hill country between Austin and San Antonio. Prim, uptight Lacey is an ambitious newspaper woman who has no time and no use for men and with good reason. She’s also the national president of the Ladies’ Temperance Association. With her cat, Precious, Lacey is riding a train to the Oklahoma land rush with plans to stake a claim and start her own newspaper. She and her L.T.A. ladies plan to mount a crusade to keep this new town dry, figuring if there’re no saloons, the town won’t attract disreputable rogues.

Speaking of disreputable rogues, enter Blackie O’Neal. Blackie’s a charming Texas rascal who could talk a dog off a meat wagon. This handsome scoundrel has already been run out of half the towns in the Lone Star state. Think Rhett Butler, only more so. On a fine chestnut stallion, followed by his lazy hound dog, Lively, Blackie is galloping into this new settlement with plans to build a fancy saloon and bordello, Blackie’s Black Garter. Unfortunately, the lot he’s racing to grab is the very same land that our Texas temperance leader is about to claim for her newspaper office. Uh-oh….