Jess is back on the hunt for another killer, Bartholomew Thomas. The hunt takes him to the town of Morgan, where he meets two down-and-out bounty hunters, Rick and Judd. Once they find out who he is and who he’s after, they beg him to give them the wanted poster so they can finally make some money.
Jess gives them the poster of Thomas. Then he follows them to Henderson where Thomas is supposed to be. Once he arrives, he quickly discovers that things have not gone well.
The two hard-luck bounty hunters are still penniless, so they convince Jess to let Rick accompany him on the hunt for Thomas, so they can split the bounty.
During the hunt, Rick discovers a dark side of man he’d never witnessed before and has to decide about the future of bounty hunting for him and his partner, Judd.
Then, when two vicious killers, Alvin Glenn and Ron Clayton, escape from the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, Jess gets the assignment from United States Marshal Frank Reedy to find them and return them to the penitentiary to be hung.
Glenn and Clayton leave bodies along their back trail, and Rick learns some valuable lessons along the way.
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.
After catching the three Gleason brothers and putting them in their graves with the help of John Bodine and the huge wolf, Shadow, Jess finds himself on the hunt for even more ruthless killers. The hunt takes him to several towns.
When he takes the body of another killer back to the marshal in the town of Salisbury, he meets a fifteen-year-old girl whose father has been murdered by two outlaws. After discovering who the two men are, Jess tells her that he will track them down.
The next morning, when he’s ready to leave Salisbury on the hunt for the two men, he finds the girl already sitting on Sharps In the livery…and she’s not getting off no matter what he says.
Jess leaves the town of Bradford and is on the hunt for the killer, Keith Ellis.
Before he takes Ellis’s body to the town marshal in Raleigh, Texas, he gets information that Ben Hannon, a second wanted killer, has been seen hanging around the town of Murphy, which is on the way to Raleigh.
He heads to Murphy and finds Hannon staying in an old shack just outside town. He kills Hannon and takes both bodies to Raleigh to turn in for the bounty.
When he reaches Raleigh, Rudy Vance, a top gunslinger, shows up. He’s been looking to challenge Jess for a long time and he wants to make a real spectacle of the gunfight. He sends out a wire, letting everybody know when and where it’s going to be.
Jess decides not to waste his time and wait for the gunfight to happen. Instead, he goes after another wanted man named Toby Massey, heading to Torrington to hunt him down.
After finding Massey and bringing his body back to Raleigh, the gunfight between Jess and Ruby Vance takes place.
Then, Jess gets a message from United States Marshal Frank Reedy, ordering him to go after the Gleason gang who have committed their third bank robbery, killing two people in the process.
Bodine travels to Raleigh to join Jess on the hunt. After they catch the first of the gang, the huge timber wolf, Shadow, mysteriously shows up again.
Jess is back on the job, hunting the next killer on his list, Mick Barton. His hunt takes him to the town of Carlisle, but before he gets there, he finds a couple murdered along the trail next to their wagon.
When he takes the bodies into Carlisle, he discovers that Arthur Meeks and Elliot Wrigley were the murderers. He also learns that they left Carlisle on the same southern trail that Mick Barton had used to leave. He begins his search for all three of them.
After successfully catching the three, he takes the bodies to the county sheriff in the town of Bradford. On his way, he discovers a stagecoach that has been robbed. The only person who survived was a young woman named Amanda.
Jess immediately takes a liking to her and brings her to Bradford so the doctor can treat her bullet wound. He puts her up in the hotel in Bradford and helps to take care of her. He soon finds out that she was a mail-order bride on her way to marry a rich rancher outside of El Paso.
While recovering from her wound, Amanda is able to sketch likenesses of the two men who robbed the stagecoach. As soon as Jess sees them, he knows exactly who they are: Larry Thompson and Henry Wadsworth.
He goes on the hunt for them, promising Amanda that he will come back after he catches them.