After the bitter savagery of the Indian Wars, Jeff Preston (Audie Murphy) is the commander of an Arizonian cavalry outpost whose fighting against the Apaches has led him to hate them. But when he falls unknowingly in love with a half-Apache missionary Dawn Gillis (Linda Lawson) he has to choose between his heart, or his hatred. And when the discovery of a rich strain of gold on the Apache reservation leads the local white townsfolk to turn on the Apaches and start murdering them to drive them off their reservation, Preston has to decide whether to fight for his race or fight for justice…