In 1891, Lt. Colonel Mark Wainwright's forces in Kansas City receive good and bad news - the bad news is that General Monteith was forces to abandon Topeka, Kansas to the rebels. The good news is that Monteith is on his way to Kansas City. This news quickly spreads through the streets in the border town, and rebels begin abandoning the town in droves. Wainwright almost has the town under control by the time that Monteith arrives to mop up. The general arrives very determined to return to Kansas' capitol, and wants Wainwright to spend his every waking moment in planning to make it happen. 'That city will be mine, Mr. Wainwright.' The colonel vows, 'I shall expend all my resources to make it so, general.'