The homesteaders were fencing him in. Boss McGill looked north—and turned his herds toward Montana. But between him and his destination lay the rustlers.

Only one man could help him: Powder Burns, who might have been from anywhere. It was
Burns who fought Boake Queen when Queen hired a ruthless outlaw to brand-blot McGill’s cows. And it was Burns who took McGill through Buzzard’s Border where no man had ever been and lived to tell it.