Matt is wounded while trying to arrest a quick-drawing gunslinger. The marshal recuperates while the bad guy runs wild in Dodge.
An immigrant blacksmith's house is burned down, and he rejects Matt's offer to help bring in the arsonists.
Ruth Franklin, a saloon girl, foils a plan by three men to rob Slim. Afterward she persuades Slim to help her father, who plans to return the $50K he embezzled from a bank in Helena.
Texan Drum Denman goes after northerner Earp by backing a free newspaper to print false stories about Earp trying to draw him out of Dodge City. His second story says Earp is having an affair with the minister's teenage daughter.
After Earp's cousin is killed with a knife, Earp decides to go alone to Texas disguised as a cowhand to find the killer. He finds work on a cattle drive riding drag. Things become dicey when the trail boss appears to be involved.
