Dave Blassingame and his dog Brown find a dead cowhand on the trail. Dave takes the body to a nearby cattle line camp. Dave accepts a job as a cow puncher and meets a former friend named Sham Prescott. Some days later Dave, Prescott and the other cowhands get drunk. Prescott provokes Dave into a gunfight and is killed.

Dave and his Mexican friend Oresquote are rounding-up wild horses, when a young fast-draw artist named Cal arrives in their camp and provokes a gunfight bewteen Dave and another wrangler.