 News of a peace treaty signing between the Paiutes and people of Nevada give cause for a big celebration. Virginia City is filled with a circus-like atmosphere, but nobody is aware of a deadly threat that a white supremacist has planned. Mr. Ganns - a white supremacist who killed his own son after marrying a Paiute - arrives in Virginia City with two henchmen, all of them posing as reporters from St. Louis and hoping to cover the treaty signing. Inside boxes marked "camera equipment" are actually parts from a stolen Gatling gun, which they plan to use to kill everyone. Ganns - whose hatred of the redman had been building for years, resulting in his son s estrangement and eventual murder - suggests that, by massacring everyone at the peace treaty signing, each side will blame the other and eventually, a raging war would start with the Paiute tribe (then other tribes) eventually being killed off. Eventually, Hoss is taken hostage by Ganns s men, and when Joe and Clem go to investigate, learn the true identity of the "reporters." The bad guys begin to take Joe and Clem inside at gunpoint, but they are quickly subdued. Joe rushes to the room where Ganns is and - after avoiding the gunfire from the Gatling gun - shoots the villain in the chest. Minutes later, Ben and the Paiutes arrive to begin the ceremonies, and the celebration goes on with nobody knowing what had happened inside the hotel.