When the US marshal chasing him dies accidentally, outlaw Barton Clancy rides the marshal's horse into Tularosa to rejoin the Paltroe brothers' gang. But he finds Hank Paltroe is waiting to be hanged. Now the town is in fear that the other brother, Josie, will attempt to rescue him. Mistaken for the dead US marshal, Clancy is welcomed as Tularosa's saviour. Then, involved with a local girl, he has to decide whether his loyalty lies with the townsfolk or the outlaws. After an explosion of violence, he makes the decision. But has he made the right choice?
Recently widowed lawyer Gerald Gower left his job in New York to start a new life working for Union Pacific Railroad in the hope that the harsh work would help him forget. Blood and death involving hostile Indians and renegades initiated a relationship between Gower and an unpredictabe and tough collegue.
When hard man Roop Calmont rode into Pine Notch, folk predicted life in the town would never be the same again. Roop had come to help his brother, who was wrongly accused of rustling. The search leads him into the Jacinto hills.'
Having been a soldier of fortune since losing his ranch to jayhawkers, Henry Meade embroils the itinerant, ambitious Letty Dale in a plan. Their aim is to convince a wealthy old rancher that Letty is his long-lost granddaughter.'
Divided loyalties cause Fallon Vejar to leave his outlaw band when its leader decides to rob the bank in Vejar's hometown. Though having fled two years earlier after being accused of murder, his fears for Raya - the girl he left behind - make him return to Yancey. Although discovering that Raya is to marry his old friend Sheriff George Harker, Vejar is prepared to help Harker repel the very outlaws he'd abandoned. But Vejar's loyalties are again put to the test when the sheriff is shot and he is left to defend the hostile town on his own. Now he must head towards a final showdown with all the odds against him.
Wells Fargo investigator Asa Harker is sent to deal with a dangerous crooked sheriff, a widow searching for her husband''s killers and a trail that can only lead to danger, or worse still, death. '