When three young escorts turn up dead in the mining town of Deadwood, John Henry Cole is called in to investigate the murders.

The winter around Cheyenne, Wyoming, that year was devastating, killing both people and livestock. John Henry Cole was three miles out of town on his small ranch, waiting out the storm that was quickly killing his cattle and horses, and starting to feel a little crazy himself. Everything he owned was dying before his eyes, and there wasn't anything that he could do about it. When the storm finally blew itself out and the Chinook came, Cole surveyed...