Steve Gordon is falsely accused of robbing an army payroll and has been found guilty in a court-martial. Knowing his only chance to clear his name is to find the real robbers, he escapes from the guardhouse, with the help of his orderly, Smiley Burnette. He finds that the man he thinks can clear his name has been murdered, and the daughter, Mary Ann Jarvis, now runs his ranch, which is being sought by a gang for unknown reasons. He uses his alter-ego, a masked rider known as The Durango Kid, to find the culprits who stole the payroll and also are after the Jarvis ranch.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>