THESE BARREN HILLS, by Allan Young Beth Bell, rancher's daughter, is extricated from dangerous situations by the taciturn son of a neighboring rancher. Home from school in St. Louis, she expect to be bored, lonely and at loose ends, in the vast, scarcely populated country in which she finds herself. Her unsettled state takes a very different turn, as she makes new friends-but learns that she might have a few enemies as well. Her acquaintance with...