 Tom Morgan (Tom Tyler) is seeking revenge for the killing of his father (John Elliott) by bandits instigated by a San Diego politician named CLAYBURN (William Gould), also the head of a gang of cattle rustlers. Tom begins to court Helen CLAYBURN (Lillian Gilmore), Clayburn s niece, planning to use the girl as a pawn on the chessboard of revenge he plans to take on her Uncle, named Clayburn.