Buckskin, Nevada, was once a boomtown, then died a peaceful death. But when a fresh vein of silver is struck, Frank Morgan lets himself get pinned with a tin badge at the worst possible time. It's not the petty swindlers, or the stray murderer or two that will give Morgan problems. Instead, Buckskin is heating up from a miners strike, industrial sabotage, a hostile state militia and an outlaw gang that decides the time is ripe for an all-out assault on the town. It's up to the last gunfighter to put out the fire that's stoking a murderous cauldron, as combined events reach a fatal boiling point...