It's 1863 and the tide of the Civil War is starting to turn when Alan Westcott arrives in the strife-torn Missouri-Kansas border area on a mission for the Confederacy. The mission: find elusive guerrilla William Clarke Quantrill and deliver orders that he and his horse-backed irregulars are to attack the Union arsenal in Lawrence. But meeting Quantrill may give Westcott second thoughts about the mission.

Steve Cochran (White Heat) portrays Westcott. And veteran screen heavy Leo Gordon (Maverick) is the notorious Quantrill.