Jesse Alden Wilder was a captain in the Army of Tennessee. Wounded and forced to choose between a virtual death sentence in prison or helping the North, he chose life. Disgraced for having joined up with the Yankees, Wilder did what he could after the war - he became a mercenary soldier who gained a legendary reputation performing daring rescue missions for the U.S. army. Exhausted, Jesse is trying to live a peaceful life in Tucson, when a desperate woman arrives, convinced that only he can save her young son, a captive of the Apaches.