Trouble rode the same weary road as cowboy Chick Bronson - a road that took him from one busted range to another. And finally, instead of the job he desperately needed, he found a jail cell at the end of the trail. From that time on, Bronson was the target of suspicions, threats, and merciless beatings at the hands of men who didn't even know him. It looked as if the trail was turning his way at last when he hired out to rancher Vince Kimbrough. But in the range war that suddenly ripped through the valley of Lost Wolf River, it was hard for him to know which side he should take. All he knew was that he had to take a stand somewhere - and that gallons of blood would be shed before the valley would ever know peace again!