Too many rifles, too little time... Deputy United States Marshal Custis Long has been dispatched to help out the local law in McConnell County, Wyoming Territory, where a rather unusual range war is about to erupt between Basque sheepmen and Mexican goatherds. The winners will get the grass--and the losers will be buried beneath it. Longarm's been called many things in his time, but never a "diplomat." The lawman quickly learns it's hard to talk sense...