The story takes place on the recently opened Comanche range, where local ranch owners gather to organize a massive, high-stakes cattle round-up.
John Chisum, the powerful and ruthless "Cattle King," schemes to seize total control of the operation. His plan relies on intimidating the other ranchers and rigging the vote so that one of his own loyal men is elected as the round-up captain - the supreme boss of the entire event.
Brown Watson UK PB EDITION , 1966. Originally 1965.