1879, Somewhere out West. In a land with no king, the wild in Wild West lives up to its name. For soldier Frank Adkins (infantry) and his comrades life at Fort Laramie was death by boredom. After being stuck inside for extra weeks due to a endless blizzard, they were anxious to leave when they got their assignment. Adkins and the other soldiers stopped at Old Hal's saloon, where they drank themselves mad and in doing so came across a series of murders that have been taking place around them while they were snowed in. This scares them all with the reality they are headed to war and death is nearest. Meanwhile the story follows another, a young black cowboy, as he was first seen fighting desperately in the pit for money but was quickly discovered to be full of mystery and secrets in this land of bewilderment.