John Mason (John Wayne), returning home from a long absence, he arrives at the time his father is killed in a bank robbery. His best friend's girl (Marion Burns) takes care of him after he`s being shot.

Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, John Brant (John Wayne) escapes and ends up out west where, after giving the local lawmen the slip, he joins up with an outlaw gang. Brant finds out that 'Jones' (Nancy Shubert), one of the outlaws he has become friends with, committed the murder that Brant was sent up for, but has no knowledge that anyone was ever put in jail for his crime.