Wyatt Earp and his brothers Virgil and Morgan ride into Tombstone and leave Lady James in charge of their cows herd. They find that their cows James dead and stolen. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, which makes his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone before James' killers are now found. He soon runs in to the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking the sullen in addition to Doc holiday and Clanton clan. Wyatt finds the owner of a trinket stolen from James' body that is dead and also the stage is defined for its Earps' revenge.