He lit out of Texas with ten dollars and a swayback horse, a wanted man at age thirteen. Kid Parmlee's crime: he shot the man who shot his dog. Now, in the town of Fosterville, the Kid has found a hideaway--until his legend finds him. The West's scrawniest gunslinger has just been recruited into a bounty hunt for a gang of criminals. For the Kid, it's the beginning of an explosive adventure on both sides of the law--in the company of bank robbers, back-shooters, friends and traitors, and one very beautiful woman named Doc--with a pot of gold waiting at the end of the trail...