Striking up a friendship with a sympathetic lieutenant and his lovely lady, Jesse is finally able to speak of the tragic loss in the Mexican bloodshed that turned his young-man's hair white overnight. But there is another terrible truth to confront--not an anguished memory, but a present menace. Now, Jesse must lend all his skill and courage to the army he once fought against as they track down a band of frontier drifters and cold-blooded killers responsible for the carnage.