Comanche and Kiowas joined forces to raid all the settlements from the Oklahoma territory in the western part of the Panhandle south into Texas, about as far as the Canadian river. Bart Calhoon hadn't been back to his old ranch for over two years in Hartley County, and his trip now with a new wife was beset by difficulties of swollen rivers, savage Indians and a nefarious character accompanying their journey -whose outcome was a tremendous but successful gamble.