Big Max Huggins who ran the slap up Outlaw town of Hills Creek in north Montana Rockies had an eye on expanding his Cutthroat operation to nearby Barlow unmindful of the fact that smoke Jensen was visiting Ken there with his wife Sally when the band of murderous owl Hoots rode into town the air was filled with Thunder and the wine of the angry lead but it didn't take long for Smokey to Route the scummy lot with guns and fists and send them back and back to the stick wood holler in the wall they called him