Trudy Pyburn's father offers Will Hardy, ex-confederate officer, vigilante, and friend, a large tract of land and a generous dowry to marry his problem daughter.

The twenty-eight year old war-weary fugitive has faced much adversity, but nothing could have prepared him for his involvement with Trudy Pyburn.

Learning of the agreement between her father and "that outlaw person", Trudy vows to make Will wish he'd gone to jail for shooting a man, and she teaches him that a good range war would've been less stressful to him than his attempt to put his brand on her.