Yakima kills a young bushwhacker who was trying to kill him one late rainy desert night. The problem is, young Weldon Stratton was the son of a very powerful rancher, Renee Stratton, who is as savage as she is beautiful. Renee vows bloody murder on Yakima for having taken the life of her boy despite the kill-crazy nut-case young Weldon was. Yakima finds himself wrestled to the ground by Renee's ranch hands, stripped naked, and kissed with a red-hot branding iron by Renee herself. Marked forever by Renee's brand but armed with his trusty Winchester Yellowboy repeater, an Arkansas toothpick, a stag-gripped Colt .44, and a fury born of the mark he'll wear to his grave, Yakima declares holy vengeance on Renee Stratton and all of her gun-hung ranch hands who left him howling in the dust,