Joshua Dillard was a gun for hire. He was also a man given to doing what he had a mind to do. So he refused the presumptuous Omaha financier Fergus O'Callaghan's money, but rode the trouble-busting trail to the Sandhills region of Nebraska anyhow. In that country were his dead wife's brother Tom Holley, a tenderfoot deputy unversed in frontier life's wicked ways, and beautiful Ruth Swain, gutsy widow of a murdered homesteader. The odds were stacked against Joshua and a bullet nearly brought him to the end of the trail, but he was a mighty hard man to kill.

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