Is there anywhere safe for Nathanial? Death Canyon, a place he heard of years ago while riding with the Younger gang?

Nathanial Crosson suspects his meddling aunt and uncle have more than one public official tucked in their deep billfold. Still he doesn't care one iota about Judge Parker's ruling, and he isn't going east to live with his highfaluting blood relatives-strangers. He isn't a replacement child. He already has a mother and father.

When Nate hops an orphan train, he expects trouble. Dodging the law is something he has experience with. On the front page of many a newspaper across the country, a picture of his face as been plastered. Fifteen thousand, a fortune, an unheard-of amount for a reward. And nowhere in print does it say he must be alive. Every owlhoot and bounty hunter west of the Mighty Miss will now be hunting him.

Would anyone be fool enough to follow him along the outlaw trail?