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A sudden freeze has come, prelude to winter, and Bart Tyler has turned his herd onto the protective public domain land he has been using over the last three years. But this year things are different. Linda Dana, who has inherited the Slash 3, wants that section for her own herd and intends to drive him out.

Young Cal Libby would build for Libby's City gun-hung inhabitants the frontier's finest canal; a watery ditch wide and deep enough to serve as a grave for every damned one of 'em!

Cal Larimore's intention is to build a mile-long toll bridge across the narrows between two high desert lakes in eastern Oregon. It is a task fraught with intrigue and suspense, but the most important obstacle is the rain. For days, rain has fallen causing big Rampage Lake to run its feeders across the narrows, endangering the span of trestle that has still 200 feet to go before completion.

The news is bad. The stage driver's wife who is expecting a child has taken a serious fall and now needs her husband. Dave Judd will take his place driving the stagecoach filled with passengers who want to get through before the bitter cold that is lifting becomes a blizzard.