$50,000 in bank notes is stolen from the Tucson stage. Slade is hired by the insurance company to recover the notes. They have given him 30 days to get the job done. He stops at Martinsville looking for leads.

Slade is involved with warring Apache Indians when he is taking a killer to Denver for trial, stops at the stage station and finds the body of the attendant killed by an Apache arrow. Slade ends up as the go-between for Redhawk, the Apache chief and the U.S. Cavalry troops.