Hungering for home and safety, the boy's stumbling feet carry him into Deadman's Gulch -- just one more disastrous move after all the rest! Young Clarence and his friend Susie find for themselves a rough trail to follow -- separated from their California-bound wagon train and lost on the Great Plains . . . and strangely befriended by one of the most feared roughhouse outlaws of the Plains, the notorious Flynn! Misadventure and violence mix in Bret Harte's classic novel of the Westward Trail.