end of a phantom herd a second novel will continue as the writer contends with mashers and corrals stray stories synopsis of this volume and meet the author follow a phantom herd novel synopsis one : 1 ) big chief notebook writing , library of the agricultural college , university of arizona , 1978 2 ) easterners appear at saguaro monument , pale woman kicks a barrel cactus , photography , discovery , entrapment and subsequent interrogation , meredith lies about our 129,000 head of cattle and rancho supremo , escape from the pale easterners up the hill of rocks to summit , spring 1962 .