This is a western story written about that big ranching family that has had the power and respect it always wanted but a chink in the armor results in a disappearance of these things and the death of the patriarch and his son.  Everything is thrown up in the air. The sheriff has to find out who committed the murders and why.

Adding to the confusion the sheriff is in love with the granddaughter and things went from bad to troubled to confusing to completely out of control. The story is short but it has many good twists and turns making the reader continue to turn the pages. I personally felt that the story could have been fleshed out more and got the reader into a more complicated and mind-rattling story.

I would recommend this story to the western readers out there who want a good short story that doesn’t take all week to read.

This is a western short story in a trio of stories from the book Rainbow Rider by Wayne D. Overholster. This story is about a gunman who is working for a large land company working out of northern New Mexico and it moves to press claims for land into southern Colorado. The main character is Rick Marvin who is having some conflicts with his conscience about railroading honest hard working people off the land that they had before the Grant Company came along.

He meets a woman on the wrong side that is against the Grant Company and it is the final straw that drives him into a headlong fight against the Company. This pits him against the company and his old partner Pete Fargo who only goes where the money is and until now the winning side.

This is a good western story with not too many side turns and is a very easy read. I will recommend this story as a different pace for the western reader.