A man returns to his hometown with an assumed name. Before he arrives someone attempts to assassinate him on the road.

In a desert, four ragged survivors of a frontier regiment tensely await help, fearing that any minute the Apaches infesting the desert will discover their hiding place.

A rancher and his wife run into more hardship than happiness as they struggle to settle on their Arizona homestead.

Louise Brandon flees from her ranch after her husband is killed by a gunman who has been paid to get the deed to her land, by violence if necessary. James Whitmore stars as a hermit who's not eager to help Louise flee a murderous gunslinger.