The bootheel
"When Virgil Hutt, owner of The Bootheel ranch, realizes he is dying, he knows he needs someone around to show his 16-year-old adopted son, Tyler, all the things a man needs to know. He sends for his missing partner's son, Case Spencer, a grim-faced gunman. Virgil tells Spencer he suspects his father was killed by outlaw Dalton Fox. He will underwrite an expedition to get the truth, as long as Spencer takes Tyler with him. He intends to leave the...