 After learning of his father s death Wesley Cash returns home with dreams of settling down and rebuilding the family cattle business. Once home however, Cash is told that his birthright, a hundred thousand-acre ranch, has been sold and that his love is in the arms of another man. Without the ranch, Cash has nothing and decides to leave, but not before convincing his love to go with him. Wesley is physically attacked for his efforts and a fatal brawl ensues, ending with Cash shooting his attacker. Fearing for his life, Wesley runs and rightly so as the dead man brother s swears revenge.