After a fugitive is shot, the body is unrecognizable beyond all measures. When the body is supposedly said to belong to the town drunk, one woman disagrees...and a whole new adventure opens up.

The ramrod of the Circle R ranch has his share of problems with miners, rustlers, a young drifter and Annie, the beautiful relative of his employer.

"Like many a veteran of the Civil War, Cap McKenna went west to build a new life. Thanks to a fortuitous meeting with J. Stuart Reynolds, owner of the Reynolds Overland Transportation Company, McKenna's homestead in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains was selected as a change station for the horse teams on the run between Denver and Cheyenne. Out riding one day, McKenna comes across an abandoned infant, whom he takes in and cares for until the baby's...

When a Civil War veteran moves west to be a rancher, he takes with him the memory of an incident he witnessed between a Confederate officer and a Union officer, an that incident becomes the source of a hunt for deadly secrets.