 In the lawless Oregon country of 1842, local magnate Gerald Montgomery decrees that any unattached woman belongs to the first taker. Dan Kirby is lynched, starting a stampede to claim his half-Indian wife Paca. Trouble starts with the local tribe, but worse is in store when Dan s tough brother Tex rides in. The zeal of Montgomery s men to protect him from Tex is tempered by their lust for Hannah, who d be his widow.