Beau Boone starving, with only half a left leg, at the end of his rope, falls off the train in the hell-on-wheels town of Nemesis. He's ready to give up, but Mr. Pettigrew intervenes. Beau owes him, but does he owe him his very life? The Wilkensons, a hard mine owner and his sons, are out to get Mr. Pettigrew, and don't care how they do it or who stands in their way, and the Wilkersons own the territory, including the lawmen and judges. Can a one legged man sit shotgun in one of the toughest saloons in Nevada Territory? He can, if he doesn't have anything to lose.