Confederate soldier Johnny Yuma returns home after the war to find his father dead and his town in the hands of outlaws.
Johnny turns Will Randall over to a posse, but Randall's daughter says her father is being framed.
At an abandoned Army post, Johnny encounters a strange man who claims to be acting insane to avoid being killed.
Two former Union soldiers think Johnny knows the whereabouts of a cache of gold.
Johnny comes upon a squatter family who needs help, but the townspeople fear they have diphtheria.
A band of murderous scavengers besieges a homesteader family, intent on taking over the home for the winter.
Nick Adams
Johnny Yuma