Joe Hyde's family had never gotten along real well with the law. First, there was the little matter of Joe's father being claim-jumped. A rich rustler had been turned loose by the sheriff-even though Joe's father had the goods on him. That had nearly broken the family. Then Joe's brother was railroaded for a killing even though he'd been a hundred miles away from the scene of the crime. Now, Marshal Chip Werner was asking Joe to put on a deputy's badge and hunt down the two men who had shot Lew Ellis, Joe's friend, in the back. Joe was against it-until Marshal Werner told him the names of the two killers. Then Joe knew he had to find them-and kill them.
