Jim Loraine flees his Idaho ranch after his brother, wearing Jim's hat, shoots a man and Jim is accused. In Montana Jim finds a prospector that has been shot who tells him of a map to his gold strike. Jim finds the map and gives it to his niece. But the man that shot the prospector now arrives to take the map away from her. When Jim drives him away, he get himself made a Deputy and returns to legally kill the man he now knows is wanted in Idaho.