Dakota Showdown — Clay Tanner

A meat shortage on board the Wild Card leads Chance ashore for game in the Dakota wilderness, and into an adventure he may never forget … if he lives to remember anything! After a savage mauling at the claws of a grizzly bear, Chance falls prey to a pack of half—crazed vigilantes who mistakenly make him a guest of honor at a necktie party for a local murder. Escaping with his neck lands the gambler penniless in the frontier hellhole of Beltin, Dakota—smack—dab in the middle of an all—out war with the real killer’s clan—the mongrel-mean Ransom family.