In the classic western movie The Searchers Jeffrey Hunter plays a young man with a mission in his heart and a chip on his shoulder. The character might well have been modeled on eighteen-year-old Lee Thompson, a trail-hand on a mission of his own to save his dad, Diehard Thompson, the aging sheriff of Wolf River, Montana. BROld Diehard s lost control of his town, and it seems every outcast and outlaw west of the Mississippi is on the prowl in Wolf River. Now Lee s come all the way from Texas to stand up for his father, a man who hasn t seen him since he was a boy and who doesn t know him from Adam. BRLee s plan is a dangerous one mix in with the desperadoes and risk death at their hand Under the Diehard Brand. But sometimes, the only way to restore the rule of law is to break it. BRMost of the Westerns published in the all-fiction magazines of the first half of the twentieth century were written by authors more familiar with the streets of New York than the cattle trails of Texas. Hubb