Big man, big mountain

Shaw Dance was a man with a peculiar philosophy - he took from his mountain only the gold and the water and sustenance that he needed. Nor was he about to let anybody, gold seekers or otherwise, take more than just that. The people who lived in Summit, at the foot of Shaw's Mountain, left him strictly alone. But now there was a man - one who didn't care about gold because he had all the money he needed, one who came to challenge the right of any man to sit on a mountain and call it his own - a brash and courageous young man whose only object was to prove that he was bigger than Shaw Dance. This too had happened before. But the difference was that this challenger was one of the Slate boys who owned the valley that Shaw's Mountain brooded over- this challenge meant a war.