The man who got off the stagecoach in Cottonwood didn't fit the description of the U.S. Deputy Marshal Earl Burke was waiting for -- and he wasn't that man. But when the imposter U.S. Deputy Marshal, teamed up with Earl Burke in a hunt for bushwhackers, Earl discovered something: some men just seem to attract trouble, and Ed Carpenter was such a man. By the time Ed Carpenter and Earl Burke got several related crimes sorted out, Earl was sore from one end to the other -- and he was almighty tired of being around a deputy U.S. Marshal.