 Saloon owner Barnet (Mauritz Hugo) wants the Indian reservation land on which he knows there is gold, and organizes a gang, aided by some renegade Indians, to raid amd terrorize close-by settlers,hoping to arouse them to drive off the Indians. Rancher Jerry Randall (Richard Simmons), accompanied by school teacher Nancy Cooper (Barbara Bestar), sets out to defeat the plot. In order to win the loyality of the innocent tribe members, Randall masquerades as a legendary friend of the Indians, El Latigo.