In Tomahawk, the crooked Jackman brothers control the town, Sheriff Dunham is up for re-election, the sheep growers are banned in town and a stagecoach line undercover investigator arrives.
Jesse James keeps so busy skirt-chasing that his outlaw career starts to suffer.
After six years spent in Mexico a penniless Brett Stanton and his gang return to Carson City intending to make a quick dishonest buck.
With the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction.