A Spur Award-winning Author Elwood Lawrence, top hand at the Crown Butte ranch, is missing some cattle and it looks like an inside job. As he continues to track down the rustlers, unknown enemies sabotage and take shots at him. Elwood realizes there is more at stake than a few stolen cattle as one gunman after another comes for him. To get to the bottom of things, will have to go to the outlaw''s lair.