John Sherburn, a troublemaking gunfighter, rides into the small Texas town of Amityville, where he falls in with Peter Gresham, the most successful businessman in Amityville and the first real friend he has ever had. Gresham has only one purpose in life: to find and kill Red Hawk, a renegade Indian chief who tortured and killed Gresham's brother. Gresham wants Sherburn to help him in this quest. There is one prohibition on which Gresham insists -- Sherburn is to avoid any social contact whatsoever with Jenny Langhorne, the woman Gresham intends to marry.