Harry McDonacle is part of a traveling group of performers going from town to town. Using a prop pistol which fires buckshot instead of bullets, he never misses his target. That is until he runs into the Dead Man's Gun.
A salesman living from sale to sale, walks between towns and stumbles upon a dead body. He discovers the man was on his way to a marshal's job at Apache Wells and decides to take his job and what he was also wearing - the Deadman's Gun.
A pair of undertakers get their business wherever they can. Their payment is whatever they can get, even from each other. During an unusually slow period, their payment and their future comes unexpectedly in the form of the Dead Man's Gun.
Robert Cosgrove runs a failing boarding house with his wife. A rich boarder tells him we make our own luck. Taking his advice, he starts a new career by stealing his money and relieving him of the Deadman's Gun.
Raymond Jakes has dreams of being more than he is -- a store keeper. When one day he trades goods for the Deadman's Gun, he feels his calling of being a bounty hunter can now be realized.
Willed the Deadman's Gun by her latest husband, Lillian Posey moves to a new town where she ensnares her next victim. What she doesn't know is his reputation may equal hers.
Paid off with the Dead Man's Gun after delivering a baby, Dr. Butler finds that it may bring up a past he had no part of and involves someone he loves.
Considering all the times he and his people, the Nez Perce, have been victimized by the soyapo, white man, Tom Shadow Wolf finds a way to even the score when he stumbles upon the Deadman's Gun.
Gathering the remainder of his family and friends, a dying man uses the weekend to see who deserves what of his considerable estate and holdings, one of which is the Deadman's Gun.
A ruthless, hard-bitten bounty hunter carrying the Dead Man's Gun accidentally kills an innocent young man in a shoot-out. The mother of the dead boy puts a bounty on the bounty-hunter.
When a blacksmith sends away for a bride, what his future has in store is more than what he initially planned especially when it includes the Dead Man's Gun.
A crystal ball gazer with a traveling carnival tricks a man out of the Deadman's Gun not knowing she is about to experience talents for foretelling the future even she didn't know she had.
A stagecoach driver, in an old west town, finds romance with a passenger. As it turns out, he is really interested in a large shipment of silver she might be transporting.
After photographing a local bank robbery, Travis decides to take his show on the road when papers are willing to print his pictures for top dollar. What he thinks he knows is how each deed is done so he must follow the Deadman's Gun.
A down on his luck gambler unknowingly changes his luck when he tries to welch on a bet and winds up using a man's gun against him and it turns out to be The Dead Man's Gun.
Reverand Early relieves a sinner of the Dead Man's Gun and believes he can now heal with his hands and faith. Conning the townsmen to contribute their money to his Well of Miracles works and then something unexpected happens.
Lured by a James & Decker theft proof safe, a renowned safe cracker takes it on, knowing a Woodsman agent is on his trail. But his last job yielded more than money - now he has the Dead Man's Gun.
