Faced by a land as poisonous as a rattler's bite, Mick goes in search of Bill Hinton, his last living relative. His companion Syd also wants to find Hinton, but for very different reasons... Texas Hill Country in the 1870s was as close to the devil's stew pot as you can get. The Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne had banded together in a desperate fight against the whites who seemed to annihilate the buffalo herds. Rebels returning from the Civil War began cattle rustling leading to massive feuds. The Ninth and Tenth Cavalry - known as "buffalo soldiers" by the Indians they fought - were mustering out only to find a hostile freedom at best. Rumours of a Lost San Saba mine were luring adventures of the worst sort into the heart of this unforgiving mess. Into all this rides 17-year-old Mick, without a gun, looking for his last living relative, Bill Hinton. Then he meets Syd, a Mexican girl, who is just as determined to find Bill Hinton...and kill him.