Trouble In Tecumseh
Jess heads to the town of Tecumseh in search of the next man on his hunt list, Matt Raymond. He doesn’t find Raymond, but he sees two drunken brothers beat up a local man named Roger. While Roger is gentle and kind, he doesn’t possess all his faculties.
Jess confronts the two brothers and they finally leave town. The next day their father, known as big Daddy (Hank) Boone, comes to town with his two hired guns to question Jess.
Jess confronts Hank Boone, but his hired guns are reluctant to challenge him. Boone closes the general store and the saloon in town out of spite to punish the townsfolk. The battle of wills between Jess and Boone begins.
Jess is determined to teach Boone that he can’t own a town or its people, but Boone is an angry and very stubborn man.
Jess sends out a supply wagon to pick up supplies for the town. Boone puts a blood bounty on Jess’s head.
Men start showing up in town to collect it.
Hart’s Revenge
After having a very relaxing time in Stratton, Jess is back on the hunt for the next killer on his list, Ben Slater. The hunt takes him to the town of Seaton.
Before he reaches his destination, he finds a man shot and left for dead out on the trail. The man explains that he and his brother had robbed a trading post and killed the couple who ran it. He dies shortly after Jess finds him.
When Jess arrives in the town of Seaton, he confronts the man’s brother and kills him. While there, he gets a lead on the possible location of Slater and heads for the little village of Hampton.
He finds Ben Slater hiding in a friend’s house in Hampton. He gives Slater a head start to prevent anyone in the village from getting hurt, but Slater decides to finally end it. Instead of running, he stops and waits for Jess to catch him.
After taking Slater’s body to the marshal in Kensington, Texas, he sets off on the hunt for John Cooper, a ruthless killer who set fire to a home in Charleston, killing a mother and four children.
The hunt for Cooper becomes troublesome. The husband and father of the four children, Mickey Hart, is hell-bent on killing Cooper himself…his way.
Return to Stratton
Jess and John Bodine have finished cleaning up Frankfurt, ridding the town of Eddie Pickett and his gang, and Jess is back on the hunt for Dave Nutter.
After finally catching up with Nutter, he heads along a trail that would take him to Stratton, Texas, for a much-needed rest. Along the way, he takes Nutter’s body to the town of Raleigh to turn in to the marshal there for the bounty.
When he arrives, he discovers that the marshal, Houston Goodheart, has been beaten severely by two brothers, Larry and Danny Neal. Goodheart begs Jess to track down the two brothers and bring them back to his jail while he recuperates.
He catches the Neal brothers and locks them up in the jail in Raleigh, but then two of their friends show up in town and cause trouble. Jess is delayed even further dealing with them.
Just when he thinks he’ll be able to continue his travel to Stratton and his long-awaited rest, life seems to throw more obstacles in his way, one by one.
He begins to wonder if he’ll ever make it to Stratton.
Troubled Town
Death Hunter
Jess is back on the hunt for the next killer on his list, a vicious man by the name of Rufus Hadley. After he finds Hadley and kills him, he takes his body to the town of Madison to turn in for the bounty.
After leaving Madison, he heads to the town of Arthur in search of Tom Dutton. Dutton had already left the town of Arthur, but not before killing one of the local men there. While in Arthur, Jess meets a beautiful young woman by the name of Lindsey, and he immediately takes to her.