Clay Wade proved to be one of the toughest men you don’t want to mess with if you want to live to tell about it. He and a couple of his friends spent two months in the Great Smokey Mountains tracking down a gang of outlaws. After seeing them captured and hanged they returned to Texas to find their ranch raided, the house ransacked and several horses stolen, including two of Clay’s prize stallions. Clay hit the trail in Dewitt County, Texas, followed it through four states, blizzards, and thieves with someone trying to kill him at every crook and turn. After trailing the thief for three months, it finally ended in Wyoming, in a killing winter blizzard and a gun battle, leaving one man dead and another seriously wounded.