WANTED - DEAD OR ALIVE!John Cardinal - gray eyes, red hair, six foot tall, 175 pounds.... and "vicious with a fast gun!"One Thousand Dollars Reward! For the cold-blooded murder of a U.S. Marshal! For bank-robbery! Cattle-rustling! Stagecoach holdup! Horse-thieving! And for every other kind of skulduggery known!But for John Cardinal himself, there was one terrible irony - he was innocent of all of those things, but determined to follow a fugitive's trail to a showdown with the false law of a passel of pistol-toting pursuers.

When cowboy Lance Tolliver stumbles across a dead body, he's caught in a three-way battle among Indians, border bandits, and the law.