For ten years, Owen Tragg lived on his reputation as a hero. A slick showman dressed him up in fringed and beaded buckskin and billed him as The man who killed Jody Barker. When the act folded, Tragg was relieved. His plan was to head to El Paso and apply for a job as a deputy. But before he could do that, he had some unpleasant business to take care of in a town called Boser's Creek. It was there that Jody Barker's vengeful widow waited for him, and it was there that Owen Tragg would finally be forced to separate Tragg the legend from Tragg the man.