Having created a new life for himself after causing the death of his adopted father, gunfighter Clint Bowels is stunned to learn ten years later that his father might still be alive. To find the truth despite the chance his true identity might be discovered, Clint journeys to the foothills of the Sangre d'Cristo Mountains where he finds his father. But the old man refuses his son's help. Angered, Clint pushes foward and finds himself in a confrontation...

Joe Phoebe and his partner, Ira Croton, ride boldly into the forbidding hill country of central Texas for two reasons: first, to take a job bullwhacking for Mills' Freight and Livery in Dead Apache Springs; and second, on the outside chance that someone might recognize Joe, or that he might run into something that could trigger his memory, which has been wiped out by a minie ball at Appomattox. Instead, they ride into a tangled conspiracy of cold-blooded...

Davy Nelson went to Crockett, Texas to fulfill a promise made to his dying partner on the battlefield. He found Yankee carpetbaggers were charging usurious taxes to steal land. One of the ranches belonged to his dead partner's family. He hunkered down for a fight.

After Sheriff Dan Ellis keeps Josh Carson and Tiny Hamilton out of the tar and feathering pot,he gives the two drifters a choice of thirty days in jail or bull-whacking for Frenchy Buckalew and her freight line.

Shad Colter has his hands full trying to run the nearly-bankrupt Flying A ranch with the recently-deceased owner's daughter.

Rancher Bill Merritt is fixing to drive a herd of cattle to Dodge City. Bill's dead brother, may have fixed him before he hits the trail. According to the terms of his brother's will, Bill inherits half of Two M ranch only if he takes his two nieces and their nanny along on the cattle drive.