Maddox: Trail of Death comes from a history of violence and loss, Clint Maddox having grown up amid the battles and tensions of the Civil War. After losing his family, he gradually learns the ways of fighting and killing, while the people that Clint looks up to seem to meet horrible ends. As Clint makes his way though the west, personal vendettas and schemes begin to surface, Clint is slowly lured into a web of violence and bloodshed, stemming from a confrontation with his past. Clint forms his own plans for vengeance when he learns that a man from his past is now digging him a new grave. But a woman provides a bitter sweet love interest for him. The arbitration Clint now has to make, Live like a man, love like a man, or die like a man. Somewhere in the midst of wild Utah Territory he will find his destiny.