Texas Rangers Augustus "Gus" McCrae and Woodrow F. Call face three outlaws they must find: Buffalo Hump, the great Comanche war criminal, Kicking Wolf, a Comanche horse thief and Ahumado, a Mexican bandit. Native American tracker Famous Shoes travels with them, along with several other accomplices. The Comanches want to protect their land from the encroaching Western frontier and do everything they can to chase the Rangers away.