Cattle man Quint Cantrell gets word that the family who took him in as a boy is in trouble. From over the Mexican border, the vicious bandito Manuel Soto and his men are murdering anyone in sight. So, Quint rounds up his gutsy brothers to bring Soto's army either to its knees--or to its grave.

A stagecoach ambushed on the outskirts of Durango, Colorado, results in a young woman being kidnapped and one witness foolish enough to trail the attackers to save the girl--which was Lingo Barnes's first mistake. His second mistake is taking Emily Lou Colter back to the valley where he learns about her father and brother and the mine they operate--which was the real target of the kidnappers.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law, the rest is blood. Cattle Ranchers must band together in order to keep their land.