Summary
A sun-scorched parable of reluctant guardianship, The Galloping Kid unleashes cowboy Simplex Cox—part saddle-tramp, part accidental philosopher—onto the vast, rattlesnake-laced canvas of the Arnett spread. His charge: Laura Arnett, a prairie siren whose heart ricochets like a .30-30 slug the instant any male pulse flickers. Cox, immune to her meteoric crushes, is tasked with forestalling every flirtation; yet destiny, wearing the snakeskin boots of Hubert Bolston, sidles in. Bolston, urbane as a patent-leather Bible, drips honeyed promises while fingering a secret map that betrays a platinum ribbon stitched beneath the Arnett dust. Cox sniffs sulfur under the cologne, gallops into crusade mode, and in doing so ignites Laura’s scorn hotter than a branding iron. Stakes sharpen when the land’s subterranean treasure surfaces in Bolston’s gaze, turning courtship into claim-jumping and matrimony into manifest destiny. What follows is a cyclone of stampedes, poker-table confessions, moonlit sabotage, and a final showdown where love, land, and identity collide under a sky so wide it could swallow every myth the West ever birthed.
Synopsis
Cowboy Simplex Cox, now a drifter and odd-job seeker, lands the assignment of chaperoning the pretty daughter of cattleman "Five-Notch" Arnett. Laura Arnett has a weakness of falling in love with every man she meets---Simplex Cox the exception---and it is Simp's job to keep her from meeting any. However, too late, as she has succumbed to the polished, oily charms of Hubert Bolston, who has dastardly designs upon Arnett's land and intends getting them by marrying the daughter. Simplex sees through Oil-Can's plans, sets out to expose them and this raises Laura's already-high level for contempt for Simplex even higher. Meanwhile, Bolston has discovered a platinum vein running through the Arnett land and doubles his already-frantic efforts to get the land.
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