The four corners area, 1879. The buffalo are gone from the prairie and mining and cattle industries are taking over the west. A young man in search of something he cannot quite identify steps into a bar to pick up a letter, and leaves on the run with a dance hall girl, a stolen horse, and a saddlebag full of mystery. Rawhiders pursue him and his new acquisitions from the brand new state of Colorado and into the Bears Ears country in the Territory...