Fifteen-year-old Will Benson plans to get far away from loveable, retarded Denny. He has picked up after his brother, taught him to ride and endured his snores forever. After Will leaves the home ranch for the La Junta Rodeo, Denny follows and gets bit by a rattler. Treating it, Will sends him back, but Denny still tags along. Will thinks back to the small white scars the brothers share on their hands as he leaves Denny with a La Junta doctor. Will then plunges into the rodeo, bull-dogging, c


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