Caleb Stone only wants water for his horse.

What he finds instead is a rifle pointed at his chest and a weathered sign that reads KEEP OUT.

The river at Coyote Bend runs through land claimed by Amos Cutter - a hard, solitary settler who believes a man's word is law and a Winchester makes it binding. Cutter says the crossing is closed. Stone says no river belongs to one man.

Pride turns to warning.

Warning turns to gun smoke.

As tensions rise and old grudges surface, the quiet stretch of water becomes a battleground where neither man can afford to back down. Because in the West, reputation is everything - and once a challenge is made, it must be answered.

Some rivers can be forded.

But this one?

It may carry only one man away alive.