 Old West highwayman Bill Miner, known to Pinkertons as "The Gentleman Bandit," is released in 1901 after 33 years in prison, a genial and charming old man. He goes to Washington to live and work with his sister s family. But the world has changed much while he has been away, and he just can t adjust. So he goes to Canada and returns to the only thing familiar to him -- robbery (with stagecoaches changed to trains).