The relative peace that has settled over Tomstone since Slaughter became sheriff may soon be broken. A professional killer has come to town.

Slaughter makes plans to capture a gang of stagecoach robbers, unaware that they've overheard him and are setting a trap of their own -- to kill him.

Slaughter is elected sheriff of Tombstone, Arizona.

When Geronimo threatens to widen the conflict with the U.S. by recruiting the Comanches and the Sioux to his cause, Slaughter devises a plan to lure the renegade Apache into attacking a wagon train filled with disguised U.S. army troops.