It seemed a simple, straight forward mission for Yancy Nodean: clean up Pine Junction. People were going broke in droves unable to pay the heavy taxes levied by the town mayor. Enforcing and collecting those taxes were a quick-gun marshal and several bully-boy deputies. Fear cast a dark shadow over the town and Yancy inherits a little girl and a half-breed young woman to add to his worries. He knows little about how to break the stranglehold of the mayor and lawmen, but he is determined to make Pine Junction a decent place to live. When the showdown comes, Yancy proves he is a hard man to kill. He rallies several men in town to fight back and only blood and hot lead will decide the victors