In the film debut for Texas A&M football player John Kimbrough and the third remake of this Zane Grey novel,Major McNeill (William Farnum), of the Texas Rangers, in an effort to break up and stop a gang of cattle rustlers, sends Texas Ranger Buck Duane (John Kimbrough)into Exceter County, Texas to take over. Buck meets Barbara Lonstretch (Sheila Ryan), who has just been robbed by a pair of the outlaws,as she was returning home from the East.