Having created a new life for himself after causing the death of his adopted father, Clint Bowles, one of the deadliest gunfighters in the west, is stunned to learn ten years later that his father might still be alive. To find the truth despite the chance that his true identity might be discovered, he journeys to the foothills of the Sangre d'Cristo Mountains of New Mexico Territory where he finds his father. The old man refuses his son's help. Angered, Clint pushes forward without aid from his father and finds himself involved in a convoluted and deadly confrontation with powerful carpetbaggers, supported by the local law, who are determined to take his father's hacienda and lands.