When Deputy Johnny Lund came to Mallard City, he thought he had an easy job ahead of him. All he had to do was keep the peace while the land company ran a lottery to distribute the Mallard land. Lund wasn't looking for trouble and didn't expect to find any. But trouble found Johnny Lund -- and he knew that before it was over he would have to take sides in the most terrible gunfight Mallard City had ever seen....