The Richard I. Parrish Trust checks were faithfully cashed each month, but letters sent to Rip Parrishs ranch in Nogales, Arrisona Territory, hadnt been answered for naerly a year. So the familys Kansas City lawyers hires war veteran Henry Logan to go to the Arrisona Territories to search for Parrish, dead or alive. It is the job Logan is eager to take his lungs, badly damaged from malaria, could use a rest.