William R. Leighton

An easy-going cowboy is forced to work on the ranch of a bossy 'able-minded' three-time widow who has designs on him.

When Barton Baynes's mother and father die, his Aunt Deel and Uncle Peabody provide a home for him. He grows up with Amos Grimshaw, son of a miserly moneylender who holds the farmers of the area in his power, and falls in love with Sally Dunkelberg.