Safely from behind some shrubbery, Johnny Hume, a boy of 6 or 7, witnesses the slaughter of his mother, father and brother by the guns of a gang led by "the Cat". Twenty years later finds Johnny grown to manhood, an expert bronc rider and target shooter - but paralyzed with fearful memories in an actual gunfight.
A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west.
Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches in Arizona territory.
A man must save his brother from the bloodthirsty mob that wants him to hang for a crime he didn't commit.