Painted Buttes

Brice Kenedy owned the sweetest spread of ranchland in all the vast desert country dominated by the Painted Buttes and drained by the clear waters of the Little Puerco. Yet these were troublesome times in that part of Arizona, for Flint Revers was making a hell-hole of his squatters' town of Reverston and gathering about him as tough a gang of bad hombres as the border country had ever seen. Brice's K Bar ranch was losing cattle steadily and recently one of his best cowboys had been bushwhacked. So far, he couldn't prove that the Revers' gang were the rustlers and he hesitated to plunge the range into the open warfare that a showdown would bring. Matters were futher complicated when Kenedy, riding home from the trading post at Navajo Springs, comes upon a prairie schooner sinking in the quicksand of the ford at Lobo Creek. The lone survivor is Carroll Weston, who tells him they had been guided there and then attacked. Her grandfather and his former slave had been killed, but the attackers had left when they saw Brice approaching. The young rancher recognized this as the work of the Revers' gang, and brought the girl to the ranch for her safety, where she informed him of her connection to Flint Revers. So Brice Kenedy at last took to the trail with grim determination to rid the land of the gang of outlaws.
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