When Dalton arrives in Warren's Crossing, the recent heavy rain has made passage across Wilmington Creek impossible. So Dalton works for the brothers who operate the ferry, Jesse and Colbert Thornton, and that forces him to take sides in a festering family feud. After a stint in prison the man who killed the brothers' father, Locke Sharpe, is returning to town to renew his vendetta against them. With Marshal Rutledge Warren siding with Locke...