Marshal "Rocky" Lane (Allan Lane)rides into the town of Leadville, Oklahoma, in the 1870s, to pick up and outlaw and take him to the county seat for trial. His mission gets sidetracked when he drops in to see his old friend, Nugget Clark ('Eddy Waller' )qv)), and discovers there are oil possibilities on his property. He also learns that fighting off mysterious outlaw gangs has deplete Nugget's finances to such an extent that a foreclosure on his property looms.