Jim Meeker came down from Montana to run Texas cattle only to find that Hopalong Cassidy's Bar-20 ran the water. When a trio of snake-mean rustlers started themselves a cattle war, the powder was primed, and the guns were cocked. It's friend against friend, brother against brother, and gun against blazing gun. All hell has broken loose and Hopalong Cassidy is smack in the middle of it all. Hoppy and the Bar-20 crew must stop a range war before the...

Hopalong Cassidy could fan a gun every bit as well as Billy the Kid. Six rounds in three seconds was his slowest time, and not a soul in the grand state of Texas could beat him. Until he met Slim Travennes, head of the Sandy Creek Vigilante Committee. Slim was snake-fast. No man could go up against him and live. Hoppy could stand or die. He had no other choice.