John Wayne stars in this Western about a cowboy who overcomes almost impossible odds to capture a dreaded bandit. Handsome stranger John Drury is blamed for a recent wave of barn burnings. On the verge of being lynched, he is exonerated by one of the villains' victims. Drury sets out to round up the real criminals, headed by a skull-faced rapscallion known as "The Hawk" (Frank S. Hagney).