The year is 1958; Kansas territory was due to be a state. The question was would it be slave or free. Both sides were willing to do anything for their cause including killing. Buckeye Springs was becoming the centre of this violent struggle. A storekeeper is hanged but this death doesn't seem to be part of the Kansas war. A US Marshal is sent to investigate and is killed. President Buchanan sends O'Grady in to find out who killed the Marshal and storekeeper and bring them to justice. And while he's there see if he can bring some kind of law to Kansas.
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