Ridge Parkman thinks he can just retire and move to Missouri to breed horses, but then an assignment comes along with his name all over it. Parkman nearly dies on the western slopes of the Rockies after a bloody shootout with a fellow marshal gone rogue. While recuperating in a remote mining town, a kind, rough-edged woman convinces him that he'd make a fine husband, and that it's time to give up his badge. Then he gets word that Duff Joseph, a...