Buck O'Bryan (
Buck Jones), chief scout for the U.S. Army, tries to persuade Captain Murphy (
Edward Keane) to let him and his scouts go after the outlaw band, composed of white and Indian renegades,led by Bruce Howard
Fred Kohler). Captain Murphy tells O'Bryan to wait until the arrival of his son George (
Phillip Trent), whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years, to join the scouts. George, who saw his mother and sister massacred by Indians when he was a young boy, has a terrible obsessed fear of Indians, including the friendly ones at the fort. He meets and falls in love with Penny Carson (
Beth Marion), daughter of the storekeeper.Buck and George go out on a scouting trip and are ambushed by two Indians and Buck gets a first clue that young George may have a problem. He gets another one when they ride into an Indian attack on a wagon train and Buck has to threaten to shoot George if he doesn't ride for help. A couple of more such incidents convince Buck that George would be better served if he went back east and find a clerk's job. But before this can happen there is another patrol in which George cries out in terror and is promptly shot dead by Howard. Buck then kills Howards, the gang is wiped out and brings home the boy's body as a hero. Only Buck knows the truth.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>