A cowboy continues to make his way through the scorching heat in an endless desert. His lips are blistered from not having water. His wrists are still bound in the metal handcuffs. He has flashbacks to previous memories, a homestead with a wife and children all deceased now to being forced from his land to be made an example of to the other settlers. The men that captured him and slew his family were other cowboys from a cattle company trying to force the settlers to sell their homesteads to make way for more land for their cattle company. On the way to Cathedral Rocks on the desert plain they are raided by the Indians of the territory. Everyone dies except for John. John makes his way into the endless desert to escape their fate.
He continues until he starts to hallucinate from a sun stroke. He believes he’s going mad, that he’s going to perish just as his family did, but gathers his will together and sets forth because he seeks revenge for being the one chosen to be made an example of. He see’s a town in the distance, but it’s kind of hard to tell if it’s real or not considering the haze that blurs his vision from the heat that continues to scorch the land. He fall’s just short of making it into town and falls into sleep.
He wakes up and finds that he is in a very comfortable bed. The atmosphere of the room feels very royal; something most people on the plains aren’t accustomed to. His wounds are bandaged, his lips are still chapped but water is present near by in cast iron cups. Noises can be heard outside the door as if there is a party going on downstairs. He eventually comes to realize he’s in a brothel and makes his way to put on his clothes and make his way downstairs. A busty blonde walks through the door she addresses herself as Katie to her clients and Angel to her friends. She explains that people found John outside of Rock Springs and brought him to the town. She asks about what made him come to Rock Springs and why he traveled without a horse. He keeps his thoughts of revenge to himself and wants to know how repayment can be made.
Angel tells John about the towns hardships and that a man by the name of Bill Whyte and his cronies continue to run the town they live in. Everyday something is destroyed and everyday they make sacrifices to the gang so that nobody is hurt, or worse killed. The women of the brothel are meant to be free to his men at all times, even tonight as he rests in Angel’s bed. No one in the town stands up to them because it’s a town full of cowards just trying to make a life. Angel just comes in to check on him saying that nothing needs to be repaid and that he is free to move on after he is healed.
A man bursts in with a bar girl, drunk and ready to go. He grabs for Angel and decides to push the wounded John of the bed for his pleasure. Angel screams and asks to be let go. The man punches both women and starts to remove his gun belt which he throws at the floor. John being on the floor already takes a six shooter from the belt and forces himself up. Instead of attracting more attention downstairs he stands over the man who lies upon both women. He silently reaches behind the man and grabs his Adam’s apple, causing the man to fight wildly until it’s crushed.
Throughout the week John takes on Bill Whyte’s gang. Eventually, a showdown between the two ensue. When John takes Bill’s life Bill’s last words are. I’ll see you again, when we meet again, and we will meet again soon. John falls asleep and wakes up again in the desert. He has renewed strength as he gets up off the desert floor and continues walking through the desert. Was it real or just a mirage?
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