Sundance was on his way to pay respects to an old friend when he spotted a boy running across the prairie. He had escaped from kidnappers and Sundance helped the lad return home. But what the boy called home didn't sit too well with Sundance. The boy's father was Owen Mahaffey, a tyrannical oil baron who controlled the city of Tamarack, a town where greed ran rampant and violence struck like wildfire. When the halfbreed got wind of what was going on there, nothing could stop the rage seething within him.