Roy Rogers plays Hickok, in his early pre-gunslinger years, as a freight-line agent protecting a gold shipment from villains, out to steal gold and land out west.
Roy returns to his hometown to make a radio appearance as a singing cowboy. There he finds himself in the middle of a war between sheep raisers and cattlemen.
In this early screen appearance, John Wayne stars as a tough cowboy who infiltrates a gang of outlaws in order to track down the man responsible for the murder of his family.