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The Kid has to kill his horse in the desert. He tries surviving by taking very little with him to continue his journey on foot. Along the way he is parched and barely surviving. They try to get him to return to the ranch. He does what he wants

The Kid leaves Texas to find his father in New Mexico Territory who is ailing. The Boyd family is after revenge.

The Hell Bent Kid was selected by the Western Writers of America as one of the twenty-five best Western novels ever written.
It was adapted into the 1958 movie From Hell to Texas.

Tot is our Kid (18). Mild manner and can handle a rifle better than most. Tot killed a man from the Boyd family in self defense.