Lt. Gabriel Lambert and Army Scout Amos Sullivan, leave their ravaged homeland to seek adventure west of the Mississippi where they soon find themselves in pursuit of the illusive leader of an outlaw band known as the Rangers. What starts out as a simple commissioned job for Wells Fargo leads Lambert from Ft. Laramie, through Wyoming, the Utah and Idaho Territories, and into the Montana Territory where he meets a business woman Janette Turner, who randomly becomes part of his life Through the course of a harsh winter they track the killers to a pair of mining towns where he's certain at least one of the towns is a safe haven for the gang. During the course of a frigid winter Lambert and Sullivan encounter other relocated Southerners like themselves such as Miss Montgomery of Baton Rouge, and Doc White, a former Army surgeon. After almost a year spent in the location and apprehension of the killers, multiple hangings, gunfights, and murders, he learns his town is anything but Paradise.