It just didn't figure. Young Boone was decent and square. Yet the man he called "father," Jawbone Smith, was a drunken, conniving horse thief. Then one day Boone learned that Jawbone wasn't really his dad, and that raised a different sort of problem - now Boone had to know, who was he? Breaking away from his outlaw apprenticeship with Jawbone was tough enough, but not half as dangerous as making the townspeople accept him as a decent citizen.