Jim Hardie guards a stagecoach carrying gold.
A rookie outlaw holds up the stage carrying cash that Jim is waiting for, prompting Jim to go off looking for the thief, but he finds he needs the criminal's help when the two must evade an Indian attack.
Outlaw Belle Starr and her gang rob a train on which Jim Hardie is a passenger, and he tries to lure her from hiding by tempting her with a prominent racehorse.
Hardie tries to find work for a man who helped him on a robbery case.
Hardie investigates a small town suffering a rash of deaths, but no one provides him with answers.