Colorado Territory

Frank Pierce altın madenlerine sahip olan güçlü bir işadamıdır. Taw Jackson hapisteyken altın madeni bulunan arazisini de ele geçirir. Frank Pierce, altınları nakletmek için zırhlı bir araç yaptırmıştır. Bu savaş vagonu hem kalın zırhtan oluşmuş hem de içinde ağır silahlar vardır. Pierce, 30 adamıyla bu savaş vagonunu koruyarak altınları nakletmeyi planlamaktadır. Bu dönemde şartlı tahliye edilen Taw Jackson, arazisini ve arazisinden çıkan altınları almak için harekete geçer.

Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.

Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother.

After the King of Rovenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean liner which also carries a number of suspicious persons, any of whom may be involved in a plot to also assassinate him.