The day Chip Bennett and Weary Davidson came upon some slaughtered Flying U cows, with their hind quarters skinned out, they realized beef rustlers were on the rampage. 

Then a hidden rifleman tried to shoot them out of their saddles, a warning that something more sinister than rustling was afoot. 

But even shrewd Chip never suspected that Big Butch Lewis was rounding up gunmen from all over Montana in a sweeping plan to make the range a stronghold for outlaws! 

This is a rugged, breath-taking novel of the Old West in which Chip and his Flying U saddle pards meet the threat of a renegade coup with fierce, gun-slamming action.