 When their wagon is attacked by Indians, Collins is saved by an outlaw gang but his wife is killed. He thinks his young son Bill was also killed but Joe Carson finds him and raises him. Collins, now the leader of the gang, appears just as Bill turns 21 and kills Carson. Bill joins the posse only to be captured by the gang. Collins sends him out to be killed by one of his men, but then examining his effects, he finds a locket and opening it sees the pictures of his wife and young son.