Mary McCarthy and her friends Barbara and Bridget travel by stage coach to Cork City to begin a new life there.
They are escorted by teacher Edward Timmons, an American Indian adopted by an American Quaker family when quite young. Timmons, an unconventional pacifist, believes that one best keeps the peace by walking softly and carrying a big revolver.
Along the way they encounter a quartet of very unlucky bandits. But those are the breaks when one travels the Danger Road.
