McNelly knows a ranger: Chick Bowdrie joins McNelly's Texas Rangers and vows to hunt down a killer and his gang. A job for a ranger: There were bullet holes in the bank window and blood on the hitching rail. Five bandits and ten thousand dollars had ridden out of town and no one has seen anything but a distinctively colored horse belonging to a local. To clear the name of the innocent man, Bowdrie pursues a murderous gang of bank robbers and castle rustlers. Desert death song: Power Basin, the rugged country at the edge of a forbidding desert, holds more hiding places than most men could find, but Nat Bodine knows most of them. Now, pursued by a posse of over a hundred men, he needs them more than ever. Jim Morton knows that if anyone can pull off an escape, it's Bodine, just as he knows that Bodine isn't the kind of man who would commit the crime of which he's accused.