He was a ghost on the frontier, a man named Rip Campbell, with a past as deadly as his Colt .45.

Fleeing a bloody shootout in Bend, Oregon, the notorious gunman known as "Rip" finds himself wounded, hunted, and at the end of his rope in the unforgiving badlands. Driven by desperation, he stumbles into the fertile, contested territory of Colfax County, a powder keg ready to explode.

In the wild Palouse hills, a brutal war is brewing. Ruthless cattle baron Bayer is hell-bent on driving homesteaders from the rich land he claims as his own. With a corrupt sheriff, Ted Dyke, in his pocket and a gang of hired guns at his command, Bayer's reign of terror seems unstoppable. The settlers, fighting for their dreams and their very survival, face impossible odds.