内容简介：
Big Bob Edwards went back to visit the peaceful old Bar Diamond because he needed a rest - if he wanted to see Stella again he did not know it himself. Within a day of his arrival, he is swept into the leadership of a bitter range war. Bob finds himself and Stella left to run the outfit, to fight against overwhelming odds. Bob is very different from the usual storybook cowboy - the quick-shooting nitwit. Quiet and easy-going, his ambition is to get a little brand of his own and make it a very large outfit. He has never been thought clever; when this trouble comes, he seems merely to muddle through one thing at a time, now winning, now losing. Only at the end can one see that he has fought with the patient, deadly skill of an expert chess player. But has he undertaken too much?