Life didn’t end when the war did… Sully Sampson earned the nickname as “The Devil’s Gunslinger” in the Civil War. But when he returned home to his small ranch in Memphis, Tennessee, he found that his wife and two daughters had been murdered, all of his livestock taken, and his buildings burned—by the dastardly Yankee army. In a white-hot rage and hell-bent on revenge, he gathered up five more Memphis area ex-Rebels who had lost family or homes to the rampaging Yankees, and set out on a mission to extract some measure of justice. After a full two months of burning, killing, and looting northern, his need for vengeance is burned out and his team cut down to two. He and Curley Johnson are headed for Texas where they hear there are thousands of free-roaming beef cattle turned loose during the war by southern ranchers who could no longer tend to them. After arriving and finding the rumors to be truth, he raises another crew and begins driving the cattle toward Fort Worth and Dallas. He has hopes of setting up a real ranch in the big valley, where he’ll buy up ten parcels of good land and make a real go of it. He has a lifetime of work ahead of him…