A killer bank robber gets away with a strongbox full of gold but loses it as he heads for his backwoods hideout and an explosive family feud.

Striking from the sky in a World War I airplane, cattle rustlers are killing cowboys, depleting local herds and leaving baffled ranchers searching vainly for horse or automobile tracks.

Dave Barrett pursues a gang led by a demented, bomb-throwing, defrocked minister when he is hired by a union official to find the real criminals responsible for the murder and robbery for which his men are being falsely accused.