After he thinks he has killed his best friend in a shootout with robbers, Sheriff John Higgins (John Wayne) resigns as Sheriff, he then finds the daughter and helps run the ranch.
John Blair, a greenhorn cowboy who along with his partner Larry Adams, is swindled into buying a delapidated stagecoach line to the nowhere town of Crescent City.
A stagecoach trip is complicated by Geronimo being on the warpath in the area. The passengers include a drunk doctor, two women, a thieving bank manager, and the famous Ringo Kid.