Four wayfarers on the Mittie Stephens flee their past. Bobby Randow, plagued by temporary amnesia, runs from a midnight gunfight. Spunky Madame Apoline Ranier seeks a better life. Lovely widow Laura Kelley evades carpetbagger law after burning her plantation, while Buffalo Soldier Obadiah Denton’s a deserter. A different kind of group is also aboard: five renegades after the vessel’s $10,000 army payroll. But the joker in the deadly game is a sixth man—Bobby Randow, who trumps th


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