Tom Kedrick has seen his share of wars. He earned his stripes in the War Between the States, fought against the Apache, even soldiered overseas. But in Yellow Butte, in the high desert country of New Mexico, the battle-hardened Kedrick is fighting a different kind of war. Alton Burwick has hired him to drive a pack of renegades and outlaws fron his land. But soon Kedrick suspects he's fighting on the wrong side, and that he is the one man who can stop a massacre of innocent men and women.