Hunt’s life takes many new turns in this exciting volume. Hunt starts by losing a deputy to a brazen, red-headed, sixteen-year-old girl who needs a husband to run her deceased parents’ ranch. Hunt gets a telegram from Clover that his son, Junior, has been spending too much time away from the farm, and the other workers are becoming upset. Hunt travels to Indiana to check on his son and discovers a shocking predicament. After traveling to Massachusetts to help a girl’s parents with a crooked judge and sheriff, Hunt is introduced to a man who owns 12,873 acres south of Topeka and begins planning another hotel and food store. Hunt’s men travel to New Mexico to rid a small town of three gunslingers who have killed every male in town. Hunt encounters a young man sent to Denver by his dying father to kill Hunt.