Restless cowpoke Perley Gates wanted nothing more than to track down the grandfather who abandoned his family years ago. What he found was the crazy old sidewinder barely hanging on after a Sioux massacre. The old man’s dying wish was to make things right for deserting his kin—by giving his strong-willed grandson Perley clues to the whereabouts of a buried fortune in gold.
Finding his grandfather’s legacy will set up his family for life. But it won’t be easy. The discovery of raw gold in the Black Hills has lured hordes of ruthless lowlifes into Deadwood and Custer City—kill-crazy prairie rats, gunfighters, outlaws, and Indians—armed with a thousand glittering reasons to put Perley six feet under. All Perley wants is what was left to him, what he’s owed. But with so many brigands on his backside, finding his grandfather’s treasure is going to land Perley Gates between the promise of heaven and the blood-soaked battlefields of hell . . .
不安於現狀的牛仔佩利．蓋茨，一心想尋找多年前拋家棄子的祖父，但他找到的是歷經蘇族大屠殺後，僅存一口氣的瘋狂老漢子，老人的遺願是補償當年被他遺棄的家人，所以他將線索交給意志堅強的孫子佩利，以助尋找黃金埋藏的下落。
若找到祖父留下來的黃金他就能成家，但一切得之不易。在布拉克山發現金礦一事，讓第德塢和卡斯特城引來大批冷血無情的惡棍，其中包括嗜殺的草原鼠、槍手、不法分子和印第安人，縱使有一千個理由可能讓佩利躺進棺材，佩利仍一心想得到祖父留下的黃金，這是他應得的。然而，眾多土匪在他身後虎視眈眈，尋找祖父遺留的寶藏，將讓佩利．蓋茨陷入天堂般的憧憬，和充滿血腥的地獄戰場之間。