The adventures of The Bodacious Kid begin during the last months of 1882 in Progress County, Montana Territory. With humor, suspense and authentic frontier atmosphere gained through a lifetime of living, researching and depicting the West, Lynde tells a story of adventure, romance and greed as Merlin Fanshaw, a.k.a. The Bodacious Kid, finds himself caught between the competing agendas of an outlaw band, two very different lawmen and one pretty girl.