Comes a Horseman

the long version

When John Dancer rides into Matchstick, everyone knows there's trouble ahead. Brian Solon, owner of the huge SS ranch, figures he's there to help the small ranchers along the river; some believe he's there to aid Esperanza del Rio, who has a tenuous claim on Solon's land; and debt-ridden banker Sanford Wilkes' guilty conscience over embezzled funds gives him cause to panic at Dancer's appearance. And then someone goes to the extreme of hiring Mad Jack Doyle to murder Dancer.