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I needed an eight-gauge shotgun that I’d taken with me when I left Wells Fargo. It didn’t take too much time for what to develop. I sat in the tall lookout chair in the back of the saloon using the shotgun in my own lap for just two relaxing evenings. On my third evening it was different. I could nearly smell trouble starting to cook.

Following the bloody about Resolution confrontation in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch heads in to the afternoon sun and results in Resolution, an Old West town so new the dust has yet to stay. It’s the kind of city that doesn’t possess much in the form of commerce, aside from a small number of saloons and some houses of sick repute. Hitch requires a job like a lookout at Amos Wolfson’s Blackfoot Saloon and quickly establishes his placement as protector of the females who work the trunk rooms-as well as a man unafraid to stand up to the enforcer sent down from your O’Malley copper mine.

Though Hitch makes short work of hired gun Koy Wickman, tensions continue to mount, in order that even the self-assured Hitch is relieved by the arrival around of his friend Virgil Cole. When greedy mine owner Eamon O’Malley threatens the loose coalition of regional ranchers and starts buying up Resolution’s few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the center of a makeshift war between O’Malley’s men and the ranchers. In a location where laws and order don’t can be found, Hitch and Cole must make their own, led by their feeling of responsibility, honor, and companionship.