The Oklahoma Panhandle is one hundred miles of lawlessness and danger: a no-man's-land designed to separate Texas from pro-Union Kansas. Through this desolate strip rides legendary gunslinger Falcon MacCallister with a twelve-year-old Indian boy by his side. Behind them lies a scene of horror left by outlaws who've massacred the boy's parents, as well as the settlers in a small wagon train. As they search the Panhandle for the killers, Falcon and Woha'li enter a storm of greed, thievery, and betrayal that has its roots in two long, gleaming bands of steel. A new railway is penetrating this hostile land, meaning riches to some and death to many. Into this maelstrom ride a boy and a gunfighter on their own brutal search for retribution.