Bad company

the long version

"Blue Mitchell wasn't expecting much when he drifted into Carrizozo, a hot, dry town on the edge of hell. But he got plenty. Plenty of bullets and plenty of blood. And the lean, young cowboy found the courage he never thought he had when he was caught in a desperate battle for land and cattle high on the sun-baked mesa where tempers ran branding-iron hot. There was only one kind of justice in that wild landscape, and that was bullet style..."--Publisher description.