When a gallant cavalry sergeant is killed while saving him from a Sioux war party, Slocum is honor-bound to fulfill the man's dying wish and send the Thibadeaux family bible to his sister. But after the stagecoach delivering the bible is robbed by murderous road agents, Slocum takes it upon himself to get the Good Book back from the bushwhackers no matter whateven if he has to give them a reading from the gospel according to Sam Colt