Bodie's trek to the town of Sorrow plunged him into all kinds of trouble.
For a start, he began to have doubts as to the guilt of his prisoner, Henry Purcell. Charged with murder and posted by the law in Sorrow, it didn't seem likely that the man could have killed his business partner. As Bodie rode further north, the weather in the timberline became worse with endless snow that hampered his travel. Being Bodie he pushed on and rode into gunfire, treachery and found his way blocked by people who simply wanted him out of the way because he threatened their plans.
With his prisoner wounded and finding it hard to figure out who was who, Bodie took on all comers until he faced down the people behind Sorrow's troubles.
It took all his skill and fortitude to bring everything into the open and make his own peace by the gun he carried and used well. He wouldn't have been Bodie if he couldn't.