A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontier town.

An authoritarian rancher, Barbara Stanwyck, who rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling, brutally for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.