Buckskin, Nevada, was once a boomtown, then died a peaceful death. But when a fresh vein of silver is struck, Morgan lets himself get pinned with a tin badge at the worst possible time. It's not the crooked gamblers, the petty swindlers, or the stray murderer or two that will give Morgan problems. Instead, the governor sends his militia unbidden, an iron fisted military commander has an agenda of his own, and an outlaw gang decides the time is ripe...

Frank Morgan, the last of a dying breed, sets off from the Pacific Northwest for Alaska---and into a raging blizzard of violence and death.

As a young man rumored to be his son sets out to kill him, Frank Morgan tracks down a woman he once loved in order to find out if the claim is true and winds up in the middle of a vicious range war.