The territory around Elko is the domain of the outlaw-gang leader Dan McCabe. He lures prospective homesteaders to town with promises of selling them cheap land which, in fact, is U.S. government homestead property. The only person in town willing to oppose McCabe is "Nugget" Clark, the town jeweler. When the prospects near town, MacCabe's henchmen, Cal Barker and Gus, ride out and kill them and take their savings. Should any get through,they are issued deeds by McCabe's phony land office and later ambushed. Only a wagon trail arriving from Nevada are John Turner, a deputy U. S. Marshal assigned to police Elko; his son Tremm, and the son's bride Cynthia. When "Rocky" Lane comes to town to see his friend Tremm, he finds himself in jail falsely accused of shooting the Marshal. He, with the aid of "Nugget", break jail and sets out to put an end to the McCabe reign of terror.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>