In 1870, two young men, Jim Averill and Billy Irvine, graduate from Harvard College. The Reverend Doctor speaks to the graduates on the association of “the cultivated mind with the uncultivated” and the importance of education. Irvine, the class orator, follows this with his opposing, irreverent views. A celebration is then held, after which the male students serenade the women present, including Averill’s girlfriend.
Twenty years later, Averill is passing through the booming town of Casper, Wyoming, on his way north to Johnson County, where he is now a marshal. Poor European immigrants new to the region are in conflict with wealthy, established cattle barons organized as the Wyoming Stock Growers Association; they suspect the newcomers of stealing their cattle for food.
Nate Champion – a friend of Averill and an enforcer for the stockmen – kills a settler for suspected rustling and dissuades another from stealing a cow. At a board meeting, the head of the Association, Frank Canton, reveals plans to kill named settlers as thieves and anarchists, with the help of Major Wolcott. Averill learns of these plans, leading to a confrontation with Canton and escalating violence.
The conflict intensifies as Ellen Watson, Johnson County bordello madam, becomes entangled with Averill, Champion, and the escalating violence. The story culminates in a final showdown where lives are lost, betrayals revealed, and justice seemingly prevails, but at a great cost.
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