Traveling along one of the most desolate stretches of railroad in the West in the winter of 1873, is a crowded troop train, bound for the cholera-stricken garrison at Fort Humbolt. On board - the Governor of Nevada, his niece, the daughter of the fort's commander and a US Marshal escorting one of the most wanted and lawless villains of the gold - fevered Old West. Between them and safety are the hostile Paiute Indians- and a man who will stop at nothing - even murder ...