After a six-year absence from his home town of Hendersonville, Kansas, Jed Hart returned from the throes of war to recover his family's ranch - lost to banker Ev Parlow after his father's death. But before Jed had even arrived in town, he was in trouble. According to an old man named Corn McIntosh, whom Jed met on the trail, two ranchers had been shot and killed - and Jed had been named the killer.