 Mort Saunders (Lafe McKee), owner of the million-and-a-half acre Rancho del Norte, is killed and the property is taken over by his foreman, Matt Brawley (Dick Curtis), who rules like a tyrant. Settler Jim Darcey (Carl Stockdale) protests Brawley s highhanded methods and is also murdered. His daughter, Joan (Dorothy Comingore as Linda Winters), writes to Wild Bill Saunders (Bill Elliott), the dead owner s nephew and real heir to the ranch, urging him to return. Brawley and his henchmen declare that Wild Bill will never set foot on the property.