Major Doone buys a ranch and immediately works on expansion, by hook or crook. Nevada gets involved when Doone's crew threatens a neighbor, an old rancher named Chuckwalla. After Nevada works over the foreman in a fistfight, he and Chuckwalla are ambushed in town, with Chuckwalla being killed. Doone tries to frame Nevada for the killing, but Nevada escapes. He must elude a posse as he tries to find out Doone's real identity.; When cattle rustlers kill two brand inspectors in a hotel in Seminole, Texas, the wife of one of the men killed takes a gun, tracks them down in town, and shoots them.; How a cowboy uses his saddle gun, a 30/30 caliber Winchester carbine.; The story of James Mason Peck, who produced guidebooks for settlers going west on wagon trains.; How cowboy George Reynolds survived being struck in the back by an arrow in 1867.