A wanted man with no horse, a gun with only two bullets, and no hat to cover his head, John Slocum hopes with every passing day that he'll be forgotten by the law. After escaping a close call with a lion and a rattlesnake, Slocum falls in with a different kind of varmint--a den of outcast Southern rebels.

As he's nursed back to health by the prettiest of them, Slocum learns that the rebels are planning a bloody Dixie uprising--and they're going to practice by wiping out an oblivious Apache tribe. Now, Slocum has to warn the unwelcoming Apache before innocent lives are lost. But first he has to convince both sides that he's their friend...