 Whip Wilson (Whip Wilson, not playing "Himself" since the plot takes place before actor Wilson was born) and his friend Bob Burke (Tommy Farrell), two cowhands looking for work, ride into Willows, Wyoming just after the sheriff has been killed by Wyatt (Robert J. Wilke, billed as Bob Wilke as he usually was in the vast majority of his film work). Young Jack Craven (Richard Emory) is taunted into a fight by Wyatt, but Whip interceds and puts a whipping on Wyatt. A committee composed of rancher Earl Craven (I. Stanford Jolley), Jack s father; town merchant Randolph (House Peters, Jr.); rancher Clark (Stanley Price); saloon owner Franklin (Lyle Talbot) and others hire Whip and Bob as deputy sheriffs. The latter two are told by the committee that local rancher Bill Howard (Henry Rowland)is hiring gunmen to drive out the other ranchers and was behind the killing of the sheriff. Howard himself, and his daughter Terry (Phyllis Coates), believe he himself is the victim of such a plot. Whip brings Craven and Howard together,and decides that a third party (or parties) may be responsible. This being a Silvermine production from Vincent M. Fennelly that has a Fennelly trademark---a very short cast list---Whip starts to check out the people who hired him.