Gold being found in his mountains was bad enough but in his own ranch valley it was something John Hard wanted no part of. Then he's forced to kill a miner while trying to run him out of the valley and things go from bad to worse very quickly. He and the other men have just came through the toughest winter since his coming to the valley. Now it looks like they'll have to deal with the outlaw brothers of the man he killed and their gang. Nothing ever seems to come easy at the Hard Way.