Clint Black ran the biggest cattle operation in Montana. His Circle .45 spread controlled the best water, the richest graze, and he had his own personal army of cutthroats. And he didn't like competition. Only a fool could fail to see trouble when Smoke Jensen brought 3,500 head up from Colorado to sell to Black's neighbor.

Jensen was willing to talk to the man, but Clint Black was more hardheaded than sensible, more bloodthirsty than businesslike. So when he heard that Smoke was headed his way, he set up a little roadblock... backed by the biggest guns in the territory. Then he sent out the word to Smoke Jensen:

Back down or die!