It wasn't Halliday's fight. But when he found an innocent man hanging from a tree for a crime he didn't commit, he felt obligated to bring his own brand of justice to the guilty.
Chief among them was Cord Dorgan, who was scaring off nesters and grabbing up their land every which-way he could. All he cared about was creating and ruling the biggest ranch in the territory. And the folks in and around Crater Creek – including the county sheriff – was just letting him get away with it.
Halliday wasn't built that way. When he saw a pretty young woman in danger, when he saw a kid shot to ribbons for trying to stand up and be a man, he had to buy into it.
After that, it was war. All-out war.