When their no-good brother was killed in a gunfight with a young drifter who was just passing through, the sheriff and deputy of Vermijo, Arizona Territory, gathered a posse together and went after the killer. But they weren't interested in justice. They didn't even want vengeance. No—they figured to use the drifter as an example to keep the rest of the town in line. Unfortunately for them, an old man had other ideas ... and when a startling secret was revealed, so did Vermijo itself.