The parents (
Horace B. Carpenter)(
Vane Calvert) of Smokey Smith (
Bob Steele) are murdered while traveling with a wagon train that is attacked by outlaws. Smokey swears revenge but his only possible chance lies in finding the member of the border-gang who took a ring from his father's finger. The sheriff (
Earl Dwire) of a nearby border town makes Smokey a deputy after the latter saves his life when outlaws attack a stagecoach the sheriff is escorting. This enables Smokey to find the hideout of the gang that killed his parents, and he, posing as a wanted man, is able to join the gang. He soon incurs the wrath of gang-member Kent(
Warner Richmond), who is jealous over the attention that Bess Bart (
Mary Kornman, step-daughter of the gang-leader, "Blaze" Bart (
George 'Gabby' Hayes), is showing Smokey.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>