Badrock is the third book in the Archie Ledbetter series. Beginning in Billings, Montana after both of his friends leave and go home, Archie continues his search for easy riches by lookng up a man named France Wah, who had saved him from some thugs back in Omaha. To get up to north central Montana, he joins a cattle drive and takes his hand at being a cowboy. When the drive ends in Giltedge, he finds that France Wah may be only a day's ride away, so he makes the trip. Once he finds his friend, Archie finds himself as a bounty hunter, and that the good become the bad and the bad become the good, until it is all sorted out and he becomes "rich" with the reward money, a situation which lasts not long enough for him or for his fellow bounty hunters.