A a blend of romance, history, and traditional western, Showdown at Baxter Springs starts with Dallas Blackwood, marshal of Baxter Springs, Kansas, escorting a prisoner, Doyle Tindall, on a stagecoach from Ft. Scott, Kansas, to Baxter Springs during the late summer of 1868. Among the passengers is Anastasia Forsythe, a pretty young woman headed to Baxter to set up a school. The stage is attacked by Tindall's outlaw gang, led by flamboyant Tango Pendergrass...