THE BOOTHEEL

All sixteen year-old Tyler ever wanted was to be a cowhand. Virgil Hutt, The Bootheel’s owner, brought the orphan boy to the ranch and raised him like a son. Then Hutt sent for the outlaw Case Spencer, a grim-faced gunman like the men in Tyler’s dime novels.

The father who Spencer never knew was Hutt’s best friend and partner. Rumors claim he was killed by Dalton Fox somewhere in Mexico’s Valley of Visions. The only clue is a hand-drawn map and a rusty Colt pistol.

More than finding out what happened, Hutt knows it’s time for Tyler to learn things he won’t have time to teach him. The old man is dying and he wants Tyler to take over The Bootheel when he’s gone.