Max Brand 
Acres of Unrest 

Acres of Unrest by Max Brand is about Peter Hale’s ranch. After his debilitating injury, Peter cannot continue to work, so he enacts a plan to secure the homestead beyond his and his father’s lifetimes. Excerpt: ‘This was the day of Ross Hale. The whole county knew it. When he got up that morning—and he had slept very little the night before. you may be sure—he looked at himself in the mirror and decided that he would now take ten years off his age and grow young once more.’