Jake Stone's old friend, Sheriff Harry Mills has lost a crooked election. In old west style, a bunch of outlaws and gunslingers have stuffed the ballot boxes. Not only did they take away his badge, but the outlaw who stole his office is about to take away something even more valuable: his life. They are about to put Harry's neck in a hangman's noose without the benefit of a judge, jury or even a visitor. It will be nothing short of a lynching.

Fortunately, through a cowboy locked up for the night in the jail, Harry manages to get a message to Stone. If anyone can rescue him from this assorted bunch of gunslingers and saddle tramps, it will be the tougher than nails investigator, bounty hunter and Special Deputy US Marshal Stone.

Stone wastes no time coming to his friend's rescue, having to kill the outlaw "deputy" on duty while breaking his friend out of his own jail. Killing the deputy sheriff to rescue his friend, amidst the acrid smell of gun smoke, Stone leaves as a wanted man himself. Before this thing is over, Stone will have to deal even more of these skunks and saddle tramps a little gunfighter justice. At the same time, they will try to shoot him, stab him and even attempt to blow up both Harry and himself with dynamite.