Hoping to put his violent past behind him, Matt Crowe purchases the Texas ranch of Black Creek. It has water in abundance; but at the massive and powerful neighbouring Bar-T, the waters run dry in the summer. Protected by gunmen, its hands constantly drive herds across Black Creek range to the water-rich creek that gives the ranch its name. What can one man and two beautiful young women do against the twenty hired gunmen of the mighty Bar-T? Very little, until Crowe makes a dangerous ally of an old foe...