Jess Harper rides into Laramie looking for a man but when he is met by a hail of bullets he heads for the country.

Slim Sherman is hired to take Professor Landfield into the badlands to hunt for gold. Slim doesn't know that the professor is really Morgan Bennett, member of the Plummer gang who's escaped from prison.

Slim finds himself caught between an Army colonel and the Sioux nation when the colonel tries to force his agenda after Wounded Knee.

Jess thought his sister had died four years ago until she shows up in Laramie to bury her outlaw husband.

Slim and Jess are losing cattle to a mysterious stranger who leaves a gold piece for each animal he steals.

Jess rides to warn two marshals bringing in a prisoner of an ambush. Unfortunately, Jess catches a bullet in the chest, and the nearest doctor is in Ironwood - a town controlled by the prisoner's brother.