Warfield Hunter's personal vendetta against the Farrel gang led him to the little town of Kimble – just in time to save the sheriff's life in a shootout with two of those deadly killers. Hunter knew that Farrel would never stand for this, that Kimble was a doomed town unless everyone backed up the sheriff.
What he didn't know was that certain prominent citizens had decided it was to their advantage for Kimble to be destroyed – and how could even Hunter save a town that was bent on its own destruction?