Eli Warren didn't consider himself a bounty hunter. He hunted outlaws like some men hunted wolves or mountain lions. The bounties he collected were simply payments rendered to a workman, and he was a man good at his work. Under Eli's flint-hard exterior, that was merciless to outlaws, ran a wide streak of kindness that showed itself the day he picked up a starving orphan in Dodge City and took him along. He soon learned that the twelve-year-old Rob Slater harbored a common intent with him - to run down the elusive Parson gang. He for the $10,000 reward, and Rob, because Jude Parson had murdered his family. Rob asked Eli to teach him the trade so one day he could look Jude Parson in the eye and square things with the killer. Under Eli's tutorage the two came to hold the outlaw world in fear until the day Eli honored his brother's dying request and took his young daughter into his care touching off a series of unexpected changes that would forever mold their futures.