Roy Rogers is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War, he is faced with a difficult situation when he is ordered to execute his best friend.
Roy plays an undercover insurance investigator who hopes to ascertain the whereabouts of a vein of gold ore–and to solve the murder of the vein’s owner.
Macklin and his gang are causing problems in Colorado, Lieutenant Jerry Burke (Roy Rogers) is sent to track them down but only to find his brother commands them.