How many women does it take to kill the toughest gunfighter in New Mexico? Civilized people see the festering boom town of Philistine, New Mexico as the armpit of the Earth, but to gunfighter Rip Campbell, it's just home. His life is wild, rough, and free, just the way he likes it— until the day he saves a woman from bandits in the wilderness. His act of valor throws him into a series of misadventures he could never have anticipated. Whether running from Indians, facing down rustlers, murderous bandits, drunken mobs, or bawdy saloon girls, Rip never loses his skewed humor, his sense of high frontier honor, or his predilection for mindless violence.