Jared Hawk wasn't looking for a fight. Not until the marshal at Eagle Pass decided his woman was looking too long at the gunfighter, and threw Hawk in jail.
It was pure chance that the Kincaid gang chose then to raid the town. And the marshal made up his mind Hawk was one of them ... and decided to hang him.
Hawk got offered a simple choice: wait around for the rope or go after the outlaws.
Kincaid's men were mean. Natural killers. But so was Hawk.
He rode out to clear his name the only way he knew how... with a gun...