Slocum's Bar-S Ranch — Jake Logan

Don't fence Slocum in…

After rescuing Jackson Wimmer from a gang of rustlers, John Slocum accepts the rancher's offer of a job as foreman on the Bar-S Ranch. Between the drunken incompetence of the cowboys and his boss's intemperate disposition, Slocum wonders if he made the right decision.
 
Then when Wimmer is found murdered, Slocum learns the old coot thought highly enough of him to leave him the Bar-S in his will. But even as Slocum embraces his change in fortune, he knows he has also inherited Wimmer's enemies…