 Riding toward Santa Fe, Tom Crenshaw (Tom Tyler) shoots a bushwhacker who has killed Dad Bates (Murdock MacQuarrie) from ambush. Discovering a money belt on Bates, Tom carries it to town, along with a letter he finds in the pocket of the killer, which offers him the means of identifying either of the dead men. In town, Tom has a run-in with gunman One-Shot Morgan (Slim Whitaker) and one of Morgan s henchmen sees Tom with the money belt. Tom poses as the renegade who did the killing and is accepted by Morgan and his gang. Tom s plan is working until one of the gang who knew the killer shows up and denounces him as an imposter.