A naive missionary woman teacher gets help from Festus in order to get to her rural job. But a group of hillbillies has other plans for the traveling pair.

After twenty years in prison, Jake MacGraw comes to Dodge City to start over. He takes a job as piano player at the Long Branch, but is this really why he came to town? He woos one of the saloon girls and seems to want a fight with her beau. What's that all about?