In 1879, Steve Dancy sells his shop in New York City and ventures west to explore and write a journal about his adventures. His infatuation with another man's wife soon embroils him in a deadly feud with Sean Washburn, a Nevada silver baron. Infuriated by the outrages of two hired thugs, the New York shopkeeper kills both men in an impulsive street fight. Dancy believes this barbarian act has closed the episode. He is wrong. He has interfered with Washburn's ambitions and this is something the mining tycoon cannot allow to go unpunished. Pinkertons, hired assassins, and aggrieved bystanders escalate the feud until it pulls in all the moneyed interests and power brokers in the State of Nevada. Is a New York City shopkeeper tough enough to survive the Wild West?