After completing school, Katherine Merritt returned to Thunder City to find an unbelievable situation involving cold-eyed Buck Forsythe, the most notorious of Oklahoma's wild bunch, and Hyde Belmont, the tall, confident Texas Marshal. Although she was attracted to Hyde Belmont and repelled by Buck Forsythe, it was the outlaw who held her life in the palm of his hand, while the lawman appeared powerless to defend her. When it came to a showdown, Kathy found herself smack in the middle of a gunfight that meted out death to the innocent and guilty alike.