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Sammy has a need for Daniel's friendship, too, having promised to marry a childhood friend, Ollie Stewart, who currently resides in the city, setting the couple up with a good life, away from the poverty of the Hills. Sammy turns to Daniel for an education about the ways of the city, and they decide an exchange of knowledge about each other's world would benefit them both. But the Baldknobbers, an outlaw group that must be overly suspicious of strangers for their protection, especially the most dangerous of the outlaws, Wash Gibbs, takes it upon himself to prove that Daniel is not what he says he is, but is actually sent by the Law to spy on them. Meanwhile, the more Sammy becomes educated in the ways of the city, the more she realizes that she really loves her other childhood friend, Matt Matthews. Ollie sees the writing on the wall when he visits and turns his back on Sammy and Matt to return to the city. 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Sammy turns to Daniel for an education about the ways of the city, and they decide an exchange of knowledge about each other's world would benefit them both. But the Baldknobbers, an outlaw group that must be overly suspicious of strangers for their protection, especially the most dangerous of the outlaws, Wash Gibbs, takes it upon himself to prove that Daniel is not what he says he is, but is actually sent by the Law to spy on them. Meanwhile, the more Sammy becomes educated in the ways of the city, the more she realizes that she really loves her other childhood friend, Matt Matthews. Ollie sees the writing on the wall when he visits and turns his back on Sammy and Matt to return to the city. 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