 While riding to town in a buckboard to take $100,000 to the bank, Rancher Jim Carter (Guy Usher) is ambushed and chased by a gang of outlaws led by Clint Hayes (Dick Curtis). Carter is fatally wounded during the chase, but manages to throw the money away before the bandits catch up. Dodie Cameron (Alma Carroll), riding along the trail, finds the money but is chased by the back-tracking gang. Steve Randall (Charles Starrett) rides to her rescue and disperses the gang. Judge W. B. Hackett (Noah Beery) is the real head of the gang and is determined to get rid of both Steve and the trouble-making Hayes. He kills the latter and frames Steve for it. Steve breaks jail, rounds up the gang members and, in court, one of them implicates the Judge, who tries to escape...