This story is set in the old west. And Sodapop Curtis's older out law Brother Darry Curtis has just rode into town looking for him to get even with him sending him to jail for killing a guard on the Oklahoma line. but no one know that the tall handsome stranger in town was their deputy sheriff Sodapop's brother Darry who was born an out law. but they knew that he was asking about their town deputy. and how he keeps talking about a gun fight at sun up the next day.