This is an unusual western in that the narrator is a woman, a young woman whose father owns a large ranch. She considers herself a modern woman who dos not require a man to look after her. When she discovers the man she loves has married while she was back East going to school, she decides she will marry the first qualified man she will meet. Not knowing there is a land war starting, she stumbles into being kidnapped by the ringleader and then rescued by another rancher's son.
They fall in love but refuse to tell the other person how they feel. They marry to preserve her reputation after having had to spend a night in a cabin while escaping the land raiders. Eventually the land fraud is resolved and the young people tell one another how they feel. There is a long and tense chase over rocky cliffs and through thick forest with one of the villains chasing the narrator.
This is a fast moving story by a prolific writer from the 1920's and '30's. He turned many of his books into scenarios for silent westerns starring Tom Mix and Buck Rogers. ( )