El vaquero Ross McEwen llega a la ciudad y pide un crédito de 2.000 dólares al banco local; cuando el banquero le pregunta por el aval para cubrir el crédito, McEwen le muestra su garantía de seis tiros y le firma un recibo con el nombre de "Jefferson Davis". McEwen se va de la ciudad y sube a un tren, no sin antes ser mordido por una cascabel. En el tren, Miss Hollister, una enfermera, le cura la herida. Persiguiendo a McEwen hay una partida, un sheriff, un misterioso mexicano... ¿quién se hará con la recompensa?
The rancher Jeff Bransford returns to his ancestral acres and finds them heavily mortgaged and about to be foreclosed and is defended by hired men with guns.
John Wesley Pringle, aventurero en libertad, regresa a casa después de hacer su ataque y encuentra a su vieja amiga, Stella, comprometida con Christopher Foy, quien se postula para sheriff. Pringle frustra un intento del sheriff titular Matt Lisner de matar a Foy, pero cuando Foy es acusado de un asesinato, Pringle, en una astuta treta, captura a Foy, mantiene a la pandilla a punta de pistola y luego lo libera, explicando su motivo.
Dick Rainboldt (Carey) signs up to work at a gold mine without realizing that he's being hired as a strikebreaker. He takes the job primarily because of a pretty girl who lives in the town. The superintendent and manager of the mine convince Rainboldt to blow up the mine and make it appear like the strikers did it. But Rainboldt turns the tables on the plotters and reveals their scheme. The mine owner rewards him with a big assignment and the girl promises to marry him.
Crooknose is a child of the slums. The slums his mother, dark alleys his father and his family is composed of the crook, the gambler, the demi-monde and the policeman. But despite these family connections Crooknose is organically a decent fellow.
