Following events immediately after The Pecos Kid #2: The Reckoning, Duane Braddock and Phyllis Thorton are on the dodge in Apache territory. With a double murder hot on his trail, it was time to keep moving. Federal Marshal Dan Stowe rides into the Bar-T ranch. He has traveled all the way from San Antonio with a warrant for Duane Braddock. Everyone he speaks to gives the same story, except from Lt. Clayton Dawes. Dawes wouldn't retract his accusation, so Stowe is left with no choice but to go after Braddock. Apaches come upon Duane and Phyllis, and the runaways are taken into their camp, where Duane learns much of the Apache and their way of life. Meanwhile, the cavalry led by Lt. Dawes searches for the pair, as does Marshal Stowe. Can there be no peace for the couple?