This early John Wayne film features him as John Weston, a young drifter who helps thwart a bank robbery. The grateful Marshal Higgins (Gabby Hayes) asks Weston for help in investigating a series of deaths involving rodeo riders competing in a locally sponsored event. Weston enters the rodeo and fall for local girl Marjorie Cater (Polly Ann Young). Weston must stop Spike Barton (Ed Peil), the show's promoter, when he discovers the rodeo organizer is planning on leaving town with all the prize money the local community has contributed.