Cattlemen, homesteaders, and hired killers locked in a deadly range war.Jim Embree, a foreman of Spanish Spur, knows that War Bow Valley is the key to the whole range and fears that only six-guns will buy it. Penn Drummond owns the country and wants the valley, too. So do farmers like Tom Houghton, a rugged pioneer who knows how to fight. So Drummond starts a war that won't end until the last man is standing. Jim is determined to be that man. Michael Carder was a pseudonym for Vernon L. Fluharty (1908-1957), a former newspaper reporter and prolific author of westerns who also taught as a professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh. His novel Decision at Sundown became the basis for the famous Randolph Scott western.
