Nearly a year after Jake Holley was claim-jumped while prospecting in the Telluride hills and left for dead, he returns to avenge himself against his attacker, Lemaitre, having made himself an iron hand to replace the one he lost due to injury and gangrene. When Jake is attacked by Bear, an Apache whose betrothed, White Dove, has been kidnapped by Lemaitre, the two men form an alliance to track him down. However, it soon becomes apparent that White...