 Buck Conners (Hoot Gibson), a marshal appointed by the governor to get the Mort Ringer (Stanley Blystone) cattle-rustling gang, poses as a dead outlaw known as The Morning Glory Kid. Riding through the Big Bend country he rescues Jessie McCoy (June Gale), daughter of the Star-M Ranch owner, from a bandit.Later, Jessie is missing and Buck follows her trail to the Ringer hideout,where Ringer, thinking he is the Morning Glory Kid, has him join the gang.Buck plans on rescuing Jessie the next morning, but he is recognized as a Marshal by gang members Slim (Slim Whitaker) and Bud (Budd Buster),who had buried the late Morning Glory Kid.He and Jessie escape, aided by Chita (Ruth Mic), a Mexican girl in love with Ringer, and take refuge in an abandoned hacienda which Ringer has been using as a slaughter house for the rustled cattle. Tony (Buzz Barton), a Star-M hand, leads the sheriff and his posse to the rescue.