New neighbors move in across from the Douglas', but they are not neighborly. Steve tells everyone to try to get along, but he finds it difficult when he is involved in a fender bender with his neighbor as he backs out of his driveway.
Bud tries to avoid a bully at school, but Jim tells Bud he cannot avoid his problems forever. Jim suggests the boys get in a boxing ring to be sportsmen. Bud wins, and joins the boxing team. Soon, Bud starts to become a bully.
An ex-convict recently released from prison is killed by outlaws before he can recover the gold he stole ten years earlier. The crooks believe he may have confided the location of the hidden loot to his son. When the youngster insists on visiting a ghost town while en route to his aunt's home in Colorado, it appears that the boy may know something after all.
An miner's boastful letters to his grandson living in the East comes back to haunt him when the youngster announces he will be visiting the old man to learn more about his crime-fighting exploits. When the miner fails to prevent a jail break and causes him to lose face with the youngster, he recklessly decides to chase the escaping outlaws.
