1763-ban járunk, a testvére védelmére kelő Abby Hale-t Amerikában letöltendő kényszermunkára ítéli a londoni bíróság. Virginiában Holden kapitány vásárolja meg azzal a céllal, hogy szabadon engedje, de a gaz Garth felülírja ezen tervét, és Abby Dave Bone kocsmájában kénytelen robotolni.

A Confederate troop, led by Captain Lafe Barstow, is prowling the far ranges of California and Nevada in a last desperate attempt to build up an army in the West for the faltering Confederacy. Because the patrol saves a stagecoach, with Johanna Carterr as one of the passengers, from an Indian attack, and is marooned on a rocky mountain, it fails in its mission but the honor of the Old South is upheld.

A greedy businessman-turned-renegade foments an Indian uprising against the coming telegraph to perpetuate his economic stranglehold on the territory.