Enticed by the richest poker tournament the West has ever seen, a horde of cheating and ruthless card players is gathering at Tombstone, Arizona. Lawman John Slaughter already has his hands full when a local Romeo takes off with a rancher's daughter and draws the ire of her father and a blood-thirsty posse. Back in town, a murder shatters the poker tournament, with a beautiful Englishwoman as the prime suspect. John Horton Slaughter has been to hell...

Preacher, a fur trapper by trade, agrees to help Hawk, who just might be his son, track the gold-hungry expedition the woman he loves is on, which is headed straight to the sacred Indian grounds known as the Black Hills--a land of no return.