Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend

It's the late nineteenth century. Old habits die hard as despite being friends, Buck Devlin, John Maitland, and Wilbur Clegg, newly decommissioned from the US Army, still treat each other according to their final cavalry ranks, Captain, Sergeant, and Private, respectively. All planning to live in the same community in the western frontier as Buck's brother Dan Devlin and his family in seeing it as good a place as any, they arrive to find Dan just killed by marauding natives. It is, however, the fact that Dan could not adequately protect himself on which Buck blames his brother's death in his ammunition not just being defective but knowingly useless by whoever sold it to him. They track down many of the problems faced by Dan, his family and their neighbors, including this faulty ammunition, to the town of Medicine Bend, their arrival coinciding with a rash of robberies of migrating frontiers-people heading west into the Montana Territory and beyond. Necessarily dressed in brethren garb, Buck, John and Will find it is useful but not always easy to hide their true selves behind this facade as they try to discover the cause of all the problems. They have a good idea that every problem works back to businessman Ep Clark, who controls the town, including the mayor and the sheriff, and who has quashed any and all competition through threats and intimidation, the only business still in competition being the general store owned and operated by Elam King and his young adult niece Priscilla King. What happens with this collective may come down to a showdown between the leaders of the two sides, Ep versus Buck.