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Johnny Buck is a young Texas cowboy of nineteen summers, working
for the Bar W. In the process of roping an old stob-horned steer,
Buck is thrown from his horse--and into a hidden cleft where he
encounters the mystery of a murdered man and a bag of ore that
just might be gold. The taciturn owner of the Bar W discounts
Buck's story of the "gold," but Buck soon finds that some of the
shadier ranch hands are gunning for him. With a widow's daughter,
a lost mine, and a missing prospector in the balance, Buck has
no choice but to solve the mystery--or die trying.
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