"If Comanche John has a last name, no one knows it and it is not mentioned in the one hundred or so verses of the ballad composed about him. On a wagon train of farmers bound for Idaho, enmity erupts between Comanche John and Dave Royal who is in league with a band of Indians planning to attack the wagon train. When the wagon master is killed, Comanche John is framed for the murder and the wagoners are incited to string him up, not only because of the murder, but just as much because of his unsavory reputation as an outlaw."-- Back cover.