JESS LOUDON HAD BEEN A DRIFTER ALL HIS LIFE...
But now he was no longer a wild young colt, and suddenly Jess wanted to be much more.
So he hitched his star to the biggest man in Montana, because he thought that by walking in Peter Frome's shadow he might grow to be as big one day as Peter Frome himself.
Then Jess found out that the man he followed was the man who had lynched his best friend.