Johnny Hendry was an unusual lawman for the West - he didn't believe in violence. He believed that living by the gun could only end in dying by it - and winding up in an early grave. Then Johnny learned that the man who had been like a father to him all of his life had been murdered. Pick Hendry, on his way to register his claim on the gold mine he'd been working, had been cruelly shot in the head. Johnny's philosophy no longer mattered. All he cared about was destroying the man who had killed Pick - and making that killer suffer for his crime