The Bucket of Blood Saloon is robbed, but the kind of hard cases that terrorize 1870s Dakota Territory don't stop there: the owner is murdered and one of his upstairs girls is abducted. Tucker Ashley is back in action.
This time, he's gotten himself talked into tracking for the posse-but only because the kidnapped girl is his best friend's fiancée. Tucker leads the pathetic posse-made up of a couple of cattle rustlers, a gambler, and a blacksmith nearly too large to sit on a horse-in pursuit of outlaws so brutal that even the Army turned around rather than confront Justice Cauther and his ruthless gang.