Out on the Texas frontier, Jim Garry rides into town, quickly getting caught in a simmering confrontation between homesteaders and cattle ranchers. After accepting a job from an old friend, Tate Riling, Garry comes to realize that Riling has been manipulating the tensions between rancher John Lufton and the local settlers in a bid to swindle the Lufton's out of their livestock. Garry becomes torn between his conscience and his greed until he finds...