Travis Logan - a Texas Ranger - is heading for Alder Creek when big trouble comes over a ridge, in the shape of a woman being chased by two killers. The woman is fortunate to run into him, he is probably the only man in the county who can, and would, help her.
Chet Hallam stayed in Texas when his family moved to Kansas. Five years passed before he paid them a visit and, when he reached Spruce Bend, bad news awaited him. His father, the county sheriff, had left town one morning and never returned. Chet set out to find him, but local trouble intervened, took up his attention and his time.
Jeff Arlen, a detective with the Butterworth Agency, is on the trail of Alec Frome, who has stolen $10000 from the bank where he works. Having lost him once, Arlen rides into Sunset Ridge, Nebraska, hoping to find Frome in the town where he'd once lived.
Chet Walker returned to Kansas when his brother Burt faced trouble at the Flying W Five years in Montana had enabled Chet to accept that Burt had won the girl they both loved but he was not prepared for the big trouble that awaited him.
