A straight-shooting, guitar-strumming cowboy returns to Dirt Clod, Missouri only to learn that the town's in ruins, a hanging judge wants to add him to his resume and his gal's about to marry a known desperado. How's The Canyon Kid going to save the day, let alone croon a few tunes, with a noose around his neck? Adapted from the author's play Song of the Lone Prairie or Poem on the Range