The "town fool" has a chance to change his life when he learns that a famous general, now on his deathbed, believes him to be his long-lost son. 

Quint says that white renegades, not Indians, are the cause of recent raids around Dodge. Working shotgun on the stage, he proves his point when he is attacked, then pursued by those renegades. His "Indian" skills save him and a colonel's daughter who has contempt for half-Comanche Quint.