Summary
A prodigal cattle baron, Chick Crandall, slips back into the dusty bosom of the Flying A after five years of exile, cloaked in the silk-shirted guise of Harold Montague—his partner’s callow heir—so that he may sniff out rot beneath the ranch’s sun-bleached planks. Masquerading among the sweat-slick wranglers, he unearths a serpentine conspiracy: his foreman Sam Curtis, all wolf-grin and ledger-fudge, is rebranding beeves under moonlight and terrorizing widowed Barbara Hampton and her trembling aunt until their cabin smolders. What follows is a bristling chess-game of branding-iron ethics, where identity itself becomes a moveable fence-post and every sunset threatens to carve another scar across the high desert. When masks burn away in the final amber dusk, ownership of land, love, and legacy are re-shuffled in one handshake, leaving the once-split ranch—and a woman’s heart—solely in the hands of the square shooter who dared to come home incognito.
Synopsis
Chick Crandall, half owner of the Flying A Ranch, returns home after a five-year absence and, because he is suspicious of his foreman Sam Curtis' activities, decides to proceed incognito. Disguised as Harold Montague, his partner's son, Chick works among the ranch hands and discovers that Curtis is rustling cattle and is responsible for driving Barbara Hampton and her aunt from their home. After a series of skirmishes between Chick and Curtis, Curtis is expelled from the ranch, Chick reveals his true identity, and Montague is so pleased with his partner that he relinquishes his share of the ranch to him. Chick, now full owner of the Flying A, offers his home in a marriage partnership with Barbara.
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