Cottonwoods, Utah, 1871. A woman stands accused. A man, sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man the town elders fear. His name is Lassiter, a notorious gunman who"s come to avenge his sister"s death. It doesn"t take Lassiter long to see that this once-peaceful Mormon community is controlled by the corrupt Deacon Tull - a powerful elder who"s trying to take the woman"s land by forcing her to marry him, branding her foreman as a dangerous "outsider". Lassiter vows to help them. But when the ranch is attacked by horse thieves, cattle rustlers, and a mysterious Masked Rider, he realizes they"re up against something bigger, and more brutal, than the land itself...