What should have been a routine prisoner pickup turns ugly for Longarm when the young offender's father has no intention of letting his son go to Denver for trial, putting a bounty on the lawman's head.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long, who was hoping to only pass through the town of Wahoo on his way to collect a federal prisoner, finds himself defending this lawless town from the Kreiter clan, who are determined to free their kinsman from jail.

Marshal Norman Wold of Kansas, who taught Longarm everything he knows, is in jail. Longarm knows the charges wont hold water.

Longarm is determined to make sure an innocent widow doesn't go to the gallows for murdering her husband.

After Bethlehem Bacon's husband goes missing while out surveying on the Wind River Indian Reservation, Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long heads out to Wyoming Territory to lead the search. And when the beautiful Beth insists on accompanying him, Longarm finds himself distracted by desire for the sizzling Mrs. Bacon. But bushwhackers' bullets quickly bring Longarm's senses back into sharp focus. Someone is trying to stop them from learning her husband's...