In "Cañon Walls" by Zane Grey, Smoke Bellew enters a remote Mormon settlement only a jump ahead of a posse. Working as a ranch hand for a Mormon woman, Smoke makes her ranch a financial success, while also falling in love with her wanton daughter. But it is too good to last. The law follows him. "Black Sheep" by Max Brand, finds young Mary Valentine--upstart, tomboy, and general troublemaker--protecting a man wanted by the law. Then her two cousins, who have been dodging the law, return home but decide to join a gang in a bank holdup. In "Showdown on the Hogback" by Louis L'Amour, Tom Kedrick is hired by a financial syndicate to run off a gang of vagrants and outlaws from a certain strip of land. Kedrick sets out to serve justice, but to his dismay, these "vagrants and outlaws" turn out to be hard-working ranchers and farmers also claiming the land.