Trampas wins $1,000 at poker in Medicine Bow and heads to his old stomping grounds of Logan, New Mexico to repay several debts and see the girl he'd left, but she's married to the Marshal. There he has a run in with Comancheros who virtually run the town and have the town leaders under their thumb. 

Garth's rival from Texas buys a ranch near Shiloh with an eye to expand it. Trampas has an eye for his daughter, adding to the friction when the rival puts pressure on small ranches to sell out and cuts the water supply to them and Shiloh.