Photographer Alexander Burdick drives his old mule-drawn army ambulance and a smooth-bore shotgun to the New Mexico Territory and into a range war.

    If the cattle were diseased, the men were worse -- they were Texas Rebs, some of them still wearing faded Army gray. They were outcasts, driving hard across a land where war wounds still festered, They were gamblers, staking their futures on a herd of pure-bred cattle.