At head of title: Ralph Compton.

Luke Deal and his gang are murderers many times over. And Owen, the foreman of the Bar 40 ranch, has interrupted their depravities one time too many. Now a business representative for some British cattle ranchers is buying one of the Bar 40's best longhorns and driving it from exas to Wyoming. Owen and three of the Bar 40's toughest cowhands are escorting the English tenderfoot on this snake-infested, ambush-laden, hell-for-leather trip. FOt the greenhorn, it will be the adventure of a lifetime. Fot the cowboys, it;s what they do. But for Luke Deal's pack of rabid human woves, it will be the chance to settle a very old score.