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The trouble started out for Sheriff Claude Rainey when the Hightower Ranch cowboys discovered a mummified man and his equine in a desert canyon near Springville, Az - both shot in the head. Ordinarily that should have been the finish than it. Few men using the outlaw path up out of Mexico make it during that godforsaken country. What troubled Rainey and the townsmen, however, was what Hightower foreman Al Trail had brought into town and given to the sheriff. Near the body, the cowboys had dug up a box that included five bloodstained packets of $100 charges, amounting to $10,000. This only deepened the secret. After all, who kills a guy and leaves behind $10,000? The sole clue to the id of the inactive man is the shriveled-up brand on the equine, which he sketches and directs to the registrar. The money is stowed in the only metal safe in Apache County as the sheriff and the townsmen wait to see who will ride directly into Springville to state it. It is Sheriff Rainey's wish that the city can keep the money and build a proper schoolhouse. Then two men occur within weeks of each other. The first, Fernando Bríon, informs Rainey that US Marshal Jonas Gantt and his equine have been found shot in the head on his land across the boundary in Mexico. He offers him Gantt's personal effects. The circumstances act like those of the inactive man and his equine within the canyon. The second man is Deputy US Marshal Arch Clayton, who informs Rainey that the inactive man was his spouse back in Raton, New Mexico. Both men arouse Rainey's suspicion and add to the mounting questions about the id of the bushwhacking killer - foremost whether he will arrive in Springville and what it is he's really after.
