After being raised by Indians and educated in the White system, Clay Brackett returned home to his childhood family only to find they had been viciously murdered by four white men. Seeking revenge, he made his way to Silver City in the gold rush days of the Owyhee Mountains of Southwestern Idaho. His vengeance complete, he is lured into becoming the county sheriff.Now, several years later, in 1868, he has become dependent on his favorite bourbon to ward off the nightmares that continue to haunt him. It's a question as to whether his job or the booze will kill him first. When a teenage boy bursts into town to report that a renegade band led by the legendary killer, Nampuh, has killed his brother and father and taken his mother and sister hostage, the young sheriff is forced to trail the kidnappers while trying to keep the heartbroken boy alive along the way. The showdown with the renegades is to the death. But whose death will it be?