 Wild Bill Hickok (Bill Elliott) arrives in a Kansas town just in time to stop the enraged farmers from lynching Dalton Stull (Kenneth Harlan), an unscrupulous money-lender, who is foreclosing all their mortgages, after having his henchmen led by Will Tanner (Ray Teal), burn, loot and destroy the crops and herds of the settlers. Bill offers to arrange a peaceful settlement, but when this fails, he suggest that the farmers migrate across the border into Colorado. Bill is leading their procession of covered wagons when a band of Indians attack the schooners, incited by Stull who also fears they will interfere with his lucrative fur trade in Colorado. During the attack, Virginia Benton (Evelyn Young) is kidnapped. Bill and his friend, Cannonball (Dub Taylor), devise a scheme whereby the girl and the wagon train are saved after a desperate battle.