THIRTY NOTCHES

Ridgely Harbin's gun is not for hire and the twenty five notches on it were not bought but his is the deadly, lonely way until he helps the Vails, heading for government land in Wyoming. The nesters find a dangerous enemy in Vane Dallard of Three Horn Spread and his attempts, with hired killers, to drive them out bring them Harbin as a protector and a means of vengeance, while he finds he can put away his gun to stay with widowed Lydia and her children. Explicit expertise.