Following the death of its guide, a wagon train bound for Gun Creek had stalled outside the small town on Conchita.
But when Shane Preston and Jonah Jones rode in on the trail of the scar-faced man Shane had sworn to kill, wagon master Huston Whittaker saw an answer to their problems.
Whittaker was an old friend of Shane's, and when he asked for help in getting his emigrants to their destination, the black-clad gunfighter and his crusty old sidekick couldn't refuse.
The trail ahead was going to .