A few years from now, when diesel fuel hits $10 per gallon, the Teamsters Union declares a nationwide strike. The independents eagerly join them. Within 48 hours angry citizens empty market shelves and gasoline station tanks. Armed gangs terrorize neighborhoods and stalk streets and highways seeking food, fuel, and booty.
Red Rider leads a half dozen Satan's Servants bikers into the rural Bumblebee River Valley where they murder an elderly couple and loot their small farm. When they enter Greenhorn Gulch with similar motives, Michael Hunt, on guard behind a locked gate, turns them away with a rifle bullet.
Hunt and his friends saw hard times coming and prepared by stockpiling food and commodities such as cigarettes, whiskey, weapons, and ammunition. They garden and raise cattle, sheep, and chickens. When the valley folk establish a weekly barter, the Hunts help their neighbors.
At one barter meeting, officious Homeland Security Agent Cecil Worthington accuses Hunt of dealing in illegally modified weapons. A few days later, with a squad of officers, he attempts to enter Greenhorn Gulch but is turned away at the locked gate by Hunt and his friends who reside in the enclave.
One biker, an Army Reserve soldier called to special duty, helps the gang steal military weapons and a machine gun mounted Humvee for their return visit to Greenhorn Gulch.
Agent Cecil Worthington secures two squads of well-armed U.S. Army soldiers for his return visit.
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