Neal MacGowan, owner of the K-B Ranch, sees good on each side of the struggle between the big cattlemen and the little fellows who sometimes put their branding irons on the wrong beef. He refuses to join the Cattleman’s Association when they bring in “cattle detectives” because juries won’t bring a guilty verdict against their friends. Within two months, two rustlers had been killed with notes pinned to their chests reading “Cow Thieves Beware.”