The Apache reservation jumper, known as Ecor and three of his followers were at large again. While scores of posse men and soldiers beat the Badlands in search of the renegades, the Lone Ranger and Tonto conducted an independent hunt - reasoning that lack of food would drive the Indians from cover. During the second week of the chase, they rode into open range near the Bar Z ranch. Ahead of them, a half dozen buzzards glided in narrowing circles. Tonto pointed to the birds of death, and the remains of something on the ground ahead of them...