Josh Kinsey and Cy Adams owned adjoining spreads in the far South West, but they were anything but neighborly. Their mutual dislike - which had started with a dispute over a line fence, had developed into a feud. Hardly a week passed when there wasn't trouble about one thing or another. It seemed that matters were going from bad to worse, and the dislike between Cy and Josh grew into hatred. Josh was a widower who lived alone with his son, Terry, and Cy was a bachelor who lived with his orphaned nephew, Jimmy. Both boys were around ten years old and had become close friends, unknown to their elders. The boys met secretly to play together whenever possible, and they just simply couldn't understand why the two men hated each other so - and now they had both overheard talk of a gunslinging showdown...