Sheriff Stringbean Hooper's job description for sheriff is relaxing while he watches the town out his office window. He leans back in his chair with his feet on his desk and takes it easy. All that changes when the town doctor, Doc Strummer, reports his wife has disappeared. Hooper finds himself in the middle of a crime and a family feud between cattle baron, Mac Sullivan, and the cattle baron's son-in-law, Dr. Strummer. Hooper's only backups are a nervous pig farmer that works as his part time deputy, and a gun toting woman rancher who has her sights set on marrying him. Having them for backup doesn't stop someone from ambushing Stringbean after an evening at the woman rancher's house. The only woman he can trust is the laundry woman on the edge of Sully Town, Montana. He hopes she will take the bullet out of him and get him back on his feet. Hooper finds himself fighting for his life and his bachelorhood while he solves the mysterious disappearance of Mary Alice Strummer.