Beat up copy but somehow quite intact. Pages well connected. Clay Bell had spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the east, now threatens everything Clay has worked so hard to accomplish. Devitt has a contract with the Mexican Central to deliver railroad ties and wants to harvest timber off the government land where Clay grazes his cattle. Backing Devitt are corrupt judges, shady politicians, a crooked banker, and fifty of the toughest lumberjacks in the county. But this time, Devitt is doing his dirty dealing against the wrong man.