The Hamiltons hire Flint to bring their spoiled daughter Maggie back, and Flint not only has to deal with Maggie's temper tantrums but renegades looking for a hostage.

After an argument with Major Adams, an exhausted Flint leaves the wagon train. He cools off at a bar in the nearby town of Silver Creek, not telling Adams or anyone else where he was headed. Unknown to him, locals are shanghaiing strangers for slave labor in the mine. Amos Gibbon makes an escape, only to be captured and returned to the mine.