Blake Durant was one of the crew driving Jay Hurwood's cattle to the railhead at Gabriel. The trail had been hard, but nothing more than he'd expected. Then two murders were committed, right out on the open prairie... and suddenly everyone became a suspect. Because there hadn't been any love lost between Blake and Joe Sowarth, Joe's brother, Lanny, was convinced that Blake was the killer, and figured to even the score any way he could. But there was more going on around Hurwood's trail drive than anyone could imagine, and the only way Blake could clear his name was by finding the real killer... and his sinister motive!