Clay Hughes, a drifting cowhand discovers Doonan the sheriff shot and dying. The sheriff's message to him is not revealed by him to anyone. This gets him into the middle of a war between the lazy M of Major and the Shaws of Bar S. Sally Major tries to help Clay. This can be read in colliers weekly in unz.org as a serialized novel.
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