That's what Jim McNellis was doing when he turned up in the town of Bent Fork. He was tired of a gambler's life, always moving on to the next saloon, calling no place home, up against two-timing dealers and forced to even the odds with a gun in his hand.
Now it was time to settle down, and Bent Fork seemed just the place to do it. But Jim hadn't reckoned on a beauty like Della Schmidt, a little too eager to make a stranger welcome in town; or Rex Dermott, who'd marked Della for his own and would fight any way he could to keep her. And he hadn't figured on how hard it could be to leave your past behind--especially when it could be waiting right up the next dark alley to ambush you in a vengeful hail of bullets...
That's what Jim McNellis was doing when he turned up in the town of Bent Fork. He was tired of a gambler's life, always moving on to the next saloon, calling no place home, up against two-timing dealers and forced to even the odds with a gun in his hand.
Now it was time to settle down, and Bent Fork seemed just the place to do it. But Jim hadn't reckoned on a beauty like Della Schmidt, a little too eager to make a stranger welcome in town; or Rex Dermott, who'd marked Della for his own and would fight any way he could to keep her. And he hadn't figured on how hard it could be to leave your past behind--especially when it could be waiting right up the next dark alley to ambush you in a vengeful hail of bullets...