This is a western story highlighting the life of a western boy who is following his father from one spot to the next. They came upon a well-built cabin with a lone dead man on the front steps. Not an Indian killing, the remains of his clothing still covered the dried up flesh and bones. Who was this dead man that left this solidly constructed cabin? Haunting questions troubled the boy as his father buried the man they thought was Chantry. With the dead put under the boy was ready to leave but his father was fixing to stay and use the newly found home as his own. Cleaning and repairing the two treated the homestead as their own. They staked out four square miles as their ranch and began working harder than ever before to make a proper home.
A lone stranger comes toward the ranch slowly missing nothing as he closed in on the two who took up residence in the other mans cabin. Calling out if he could get a drink of water? Then he ask the question, is this the Chantry place? The whole known story spilled out from the father and son and from that point on the story moves in a page flipping frenzy.
An outlaw gang appears, a young woman is introduced; mystery and the possibility of treasure are all elements that will drive the reader to the end of the story. I enjoyed the reread of the story using new eyes to be able to give it a well-deserved review. The story has all of the necessary elements of a frontier western that can only be told by a true western writer. I would recommend the book as a must read for any western book lover.
