A cowboy and his sidekick try to help a homesteader from being cheated out of his property.
Bradley is after Dennison's radium mine and it appears that his henchman Conners has killed him. When Blake arrives at Dennison's, Bradley and Conners arrive at the same time. When Blake leaves he drops a glove. Bradley kills Conners and uses the glove to frame Blake. Learning of Bradley's plan to kill Dennison's daughter, Blake escapes jail and sets out to reach her first.—Maurice VanAuken <[email protected]>
In rural New Mexico in the early 1900s, Bradley (Clarence Brooks) and his henchman, Jim Connors (Tom Southern), visit rancher Dennison (Leonard Christmas) to remind him that his mortgage is due and announces that they will either take a 50% share of his mine or foreclose on him. When Bradley and Connors inform Dennison that they have stolen his radium samples, a struggle ensues and Dennison is hit on the head and apparently killed by Connors. Connors and Bradley quickly hide the body and flee.
Later, two riders from Amarillo, Texas, Bob Blake (Herbert Jeffery) and his lazy partner Dusty (Lucius Brooks), arrive at the Dennison ranch hoping to find employment or dinner and discover blood on a table. After discouraging Dusty from stealing a tin of food, Bob sights a picture of a lovely girl and takes it.
During target practice on the nearby Watson ranch, Mr. Watson (Spencer Williams Jr.) agrees to hire Bob and Dusty as ranch hands for $30 a month plus free food. At Watson's ranch, Dusty recognizes Connors' horse as the one he saw fleeing the Dennison ranch and learns that Connors is the ranch foreman. Meanwhile, Cactus (John Thomas), a ranch hand, tells Watson that his buddy Tex has disappeared and leaves to look for him. Noticing Connors leaving late at night, Bob follows him into a trap, but bests him in a fistfight.
The next morning, Watson fires Connors and makes Bob the new foreman. After Watson and Bob encounter Cactus burying Tex, they fetch the sheriff to pay a visit to the Dennison ranch. There they find a can of spilled tomato juice and believe that Bob and Dusty mistook for it blood. When Connors demands $100 from Bradley to keep quiet, Bradley kills him and throws suspicion on Bob. The sheriff (Wade Dumas) arrests Bob, and Dusty insists on accompanying him to jail.
At the jail, when the sheriff tells Bradley that Watson has received a letter from Dennison's daughter Margaret saying that she will be arriving with $6,000 to pay off her father's debts, Bradley decides that she too must be killed. After escaping from the jail through the use of a rope trick, Bob sets out to rescue Margaret. Meanwhile, Cactus finds the sheriff locked up and shows him a letter that explains Bradley's duplicity.
Bob and Margaret ride from the deserted train station to make their stand against Bradley's men. During the subsequent gun battle, Bob runs out of ammunition, but the sheriff, Watson and others ride up in time to capture Bradley and his men. Cactus then shoots Bradley to avenge Tex. Returning to the ranch, Bob and Dusty find that Dennison is still alive and has been recovering by hiding in his mine this entire time, and that it was he who spilled the tomato juice on the table. When Bob tries to return Margaret's photograph, she shows her affection for him by giving it back to him.
