 Rodeo star and pistol crack-shot Jim Carter (Kermit Maynard) meets his sweetheart Betty Hobson (Andrea Leeds as Antoinette Lees) and, at her prompting,attempts to save her father (George Hayes) when his discovers him in a crooked poker game with with saloon owner Bob Arnold (Wheeler Oakman) and his henchmen. Calming watching the game, Jim takes no action until he witnesses Hobson lose control of his valuable mine property in a hand in which five aces appear.Carter gets Hobson away, with property intact, though Hobson threatne to get even with the men in the crooked game. Later, at the pistol matches,two of Arnold s men are shot and Hobson is suspected. Jim hides the old man away,but Arnold finds and shoots him and leaves him for dead. Ji, finding that Hobson has just been wounded, but is uncouscious, plots to assemble Arnold and his gang at the ranch house and, with the Sheriff (Horace Murphy) and his men present,confront Arnold with the information that Hobson saw his assailant before he was shot.Arnold has no intention of hanging around until Hobson regains consciousness, and takes off to clear out his safe, and kill henchmen Miller (Roger Williams) and Blore (Ray Gallagher) in the process.