Settlers are now travelling West by wagon trains, the very beginnings of a new life in a new land that is wild, beautiful and free for the ones who make it through. Sharecroppers, under President Lincoln's new law, encourages men and women who are young and strong to tame the huge prairie lands; a land for adventurers; exhilarating, yet brutal. Civilisation struggles for existence there among a plague of human scum. Jack Hoffmann is a bounty hunter. Survival has made him very special: a legend. In many ways the tall, dark man epitomises what was once the only way for justice to prevail on the Frontier. Instant justice, from Peacemaker and scattergun before the Law could reach cow-town, homestead or hovel. His eyes hold a man in fear by his presence alone. These are the chronicles of a loner, Jack Hoffmann; stories of instant justice spread evenly amongst the most degenerate hoodlums the West ever spawned. His payment? Bounty.