Slocum soon discovers that capturing all of the gunslinging bandits in Phoenix and putting them behind bars is no easy task, especially since the most dangerous man in the territory, Rupert Grimes, refuses to come along quietly.

"Slocum knew he'd be turning a few heads riding into the small town of Davis Junction with a dead man slumped over his horse. After a vicious ambush forces him to make a few outlaws into corpses, Slocum figures there might be a bounty for his attackers, and brings one in just in case. But Davis Junction has other things in store for Slocum-- namely an unkind welcome from just about everyone in town. The only exception is a young lady who has her own...

With two dead deputies to his credit, Rafe Masterson continues to raise hell across the frontier. But then he makes the mistake of shooting the horse out from under one of the deadliest gunfighters in the west--John Slocum.

"Marianne Lomax stands to inherit a huge silver claim-- as soon as she gets past a few problems. Thieves are after the claim, the assay office has burned down, and the only copy of the deed is hidden. John Slocum has problems of his own-- trying to explain a corpse he was unwittingly transporting to Tombstone. But when his former lover Marianne asks for help, he takes on the claim jumpers. And when her son befriends a headstrong young man named Billy...

Slocum's having trouble sleeping in Abilene. The town's overrun with rowdy, drunken cowboys, but what's really got him wide awake is Mac, the man who just shot open his hotel room door accusing him of stealing his wife, Martha. Before Slocum can reach his gun, Mac's dead on the floor, and the marshal is arresting Slocum for murder.

Slocum takes on a posse in the wyoming rockies!