Two truckers trying to transport 400 cases of beer from Texas to Atlanta get pursued by a sheriff after they pick up a hitch-hiking runaway bride-to-be who happens to have left the sheriff's son.
In 1876 Wyoming the gun is the only law, and for Duncan and Susanna McKaskel, newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Vallian (Sam Elliott) is the only hope.
They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.