When the Guadalupe Kid rode in to see his old friend, Tresbarro, he didnt expect to use his gun. But Tresbarro was being forced to sell his ranch to someone who wanted it bad enough to kill for it. And when the Kid bought the ranch instead, he wound up in the sheriffs jail, with a slug in him. It was no ordinary frame-up. And when Tucson Smith, Lullaby Joslin and Stony Brooke the Three Mesquiteers came around to look for the Kid, they realized that it would take plenty of gunplay to make the sheriff see things their way . . .