Down to their last dime, Bo Creel and Scratch Morton accept the best job they can get in a boomtown called Mankiller where their boss is a drunken sheriff and where they have a real chance to become heroes.

There's nothing like family. At least that's what people say. But when Bo and Scratch come home to Bear Creek for a long-overdue visit, Bo's family kindly invites him to turn around and leave. His old friends and neighbours turn tail and run when they see him. Next thing he knows, he's in jail for the brutal murder of two saloon girls in neighbouring Cottonwood. Unfortunately, the real killer looks astonishingly like Bo. Now, with his buddy in jail,...

In a town like Chugwater, Wyoming, you know who your friends are, who your enemies are, and who your kill-crazy maniacs are. For Duff MacCallister, the last category belongs to Johnny Taylor and his gang. When Taylor's gang tries to rob a bank and Duff manages to shoot one and arrests Taylor's brother, the outraged outlaw raises a stink straight out of hell. Slaughtering innocent townsfolk, kidnapping a woman as bait, he lights a fuse under Duff MacCallister...