 Roy Rogers plays Hickock in his early pre-gunslinger years as a freight-line agent protecting a gold shipment from villains out to steal gold and land out west while America is diverted by the Civil War back east. With the help of Calamity Jane and her horse-trader uncle (played by Gabby Hayes), Hickock battles the bad guys while trying to win the love of his life, Louise, in a formulaic B western adventure with songs performed by Roy and his cohorts.