Howard Jones has passed away, and the story today begins with a letter from the Mayor to Jones' now widowed wife, explaining what has befallen him. The town of Shotgun was a mean old town, filled with lawlessness, bandits, rustlers, gun slingers and thieves, and a man called Dirty Eddy was the meanest of them all. Yes, Shotgun was a mean old town, until Howard Jones came and changed it all for the better...