Early's Winter

Sheriff James Early discovers a ranch family murdered–father, mother, and three children. The youngest–twins–not yet a year old. The investigation takes Early into a Kansas City gambling den, out to Tonapah, Nevada–the one-time queen of the silver camps–and back home where, on a mercy flight to drop hay to starving livestock stranded by a blizzard, he falls out of an airplane and lives, only to become lost in the snow-blanketed hills of Kansas cattle country.