When Patrick Grady and Rusty Anderton ride into Hangman's Gulch with a stash of gold filling their saddlebags, the last person they want to see is the notorious bandit Jack Wolf. But their luck doesn't hold, and when Jack ambushes them their only consolation is that he doesn't take their lives, too. Patrick and Rusty vow to retrieve the gold or die trying, but the news of their ill-fortune has spread and now every man within a hundred miles...