Horse dealer Clay Santell has captured a rifle from a horse thief. What he doesn't know is that it's a murderer's gun. Now he is wrongly suspected of being the culprit and arrested by Marshal Deckett - he flees in desperation. Deckett suspects that Clay is innocent, but pursues him anyway in order to collect the bounty. The horse dealer is left with only one option: he has to go on the hunt for the real killer himself.