Aging Marshal Boone Crowe has left Buffalo, Wyoming in the early 1880s in search of his long-time lady friend who has disappeared. But Crowe's anxious search is trumped when he finds himself drawn into a deadly struggle between the homestead family of Ernest Tundel and the murderous cattle magnate Douglas Starkweather. The marshal, a man wearying of frontier violence, reluctantly plunges into the fight against Starkweather, his old nemesis from the Civil War. In the midst of the conflict, disturbing clues to his lady friend's disappearance come to light. It now becomes a mission on two fronts...

Crazed prison escapee Erastus Kammers has kidnapped five young women from a Utah ranch and with the help of his ragtag gang of cutthroats, they are headed to the mountains to build a fantastical utopia. Set on their trail is Marshal Boone Crowe, who is reluctantly saddled with an inexperienced posse of young farm boys. But former deputy Joe Wood is also on the trail of the outlaws, for secret reasons of his own. Haunted by past misdeeds, Joe Wood teams up with Phony Landers, a ne'er-do-well schoolteacher who has his own crimes to outrun. The Wyoming high country becomes a landscape of cat and...

On a cattle drive through the Wind River country, retired Wyoming marshal Boone Crowe and his sidekick, Tugs Bigelow, stumble into a quagmire of violence. Two Chinese men, one dead and one wounded, lead them to Lost River, a coal mining town run by San Francisco pirate Captain Amherst Drake. Using forced Chinese laborers to work the mine, and reinforced with a band of cutthroats, Drake challenges anyone who gets in his way But this pirate has not reckoned on Boone Crowe, whose life of law and order was shaped by his time in the Civil War. No longer a marshal, he knows he has no authority or...