after hiding away for some time, gary returns to the lands near yellowstone and saves a group of farmers who are being harassed into selling their lands to mccoy. thus he finds out that his brother phil was actually protecting and helping the defenseless farmers against mccoy's men's raids and violence. gary sets himself up for revenge against his former employer, and works with the local sheriff and the farmers' leader to stop mccoy's men from stealing a shipment of gold belonging to the farmers to be used by them to pay off a loan to the bank owned by mccoy. nevertheless, events take a turn when gary realizes that the sheriff, as well as mccoy, are in fact former criminals wanted by the law and are only masquerading as respectable men. things get even more complicated when o'hara's wife comes into town looking for her husband.