"A man called Trent opens on nester Dick Moffitt lying dead where he was killed by King Bill Hale's riders. His son Jack and adopted daughter Sally, who witnessed the murder, head for safety to a cabin owned by a man called "Trent", an alias for Kilkenny, who is seeking to escape his reputation as a gunfighter. "In Riders of the dawn, a young gunslinger is changed for the better by a meeting with a beautiful woman. A classic range-war western."
