Dave Blassingame has traveled 300 miles to kill a man named Danny Lipp. Lipp is the owner of a run-down border town saloon. When Dave arrives he meets a saloon girl named Jeff, who he remembers when he was a young boy. Dave confronts Lipp and his cohorts and beats Danny in a bloody fist fight. Dave wants to take Jeff back with him, but she refuses and decides to stay with the saloon owner.

Frank Ritchie murders school teacher Eleanor Larson. Dave Blassingame arrives and shoots Ritchie, seriously wounding him. He manages to escape, but Dave catches up with him at his brothers shack. He dies and his two brothers, Lath and Doug, try to blame the murder on Dave.

Dave loses his dog to a fast talker.