- When Favor goes to a fort for supplies, he finds only civilians left to hold off Comancheros in the area. The wife of the commandant sent out the last of the soldiers on her own hoping her husband would win a promotion and trip east.
- A trip through a muddy river destroys the supplies. Favor decides to visit the sutler at a nearby fort for new ones. He takes Quince, Collins, and Hey Soos with him. On the way they are attacked by Comancheros who steal their pack horses. Arriving at the fort it appears to be deserted. Favor enters alone finding only a few civilians and two wounded troopers led by the commandant's wife, Nora. The people soon learn she manipulated half of the troops to join the rest of her husband's men in attacking the Comancheros. Her obsession with making her husband a hero to earn a promotion and transfer back east imperils the entire fort and the four drovers. Favor seizes command but finds Nora won't give up her mission no matter how many lives she endangers. She manipulates the sutler into helping her intercept Hey Soos sent to bring back the troops. Favor stops her but when they return to the fort it has been attacked with causalities. Hey Soos soon returns with the troops but her husband realizes his career and life with Nora are over. Nora, tries to reach the sutler who left with Favor but events work against her.—David Stevens
- Nora Holloway is the strong willed, ambitious wife of a weak army post commander. Nora tries to create a victory for her husband using lies and deceit to manipulate the drovers and hostile indians. She embroils Favor and the drovers in a battle with raiding indians. Her plan ultimately fails and she is fatally shot in the final battle with the indians. The indians are defeated, the situation is restored, and the herd moves on.
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