In the 1870s Wyoming, Slim Sherman and his brother try to save the ranch after their father's death.

When his horse is stolen while he's on the trail, Jess tracks the horse and the thief to a village, where he contacts the sheriff, but is stunned when the youth is given a death sentence for the crime.

Appointed by a cattleman's group to look into a spate of rustling, Slim finds himself tracking a man and a woman, who've been stealing cattle together for some time.

An illiterate youth finds himself caught between a pair of drifters who want him to join their life of crime, and Daisy, who hopes to rehabilitate the boy.

A man running from a posse returns to Laramie hoping to win back his wife and daughter, claiming he's reformed, though he is not what he seems.