Two robbers hold up a stage and stumble across an old man's ranch while trying to escape. They find the man is a former cellmate of theirs who has gone straight for the past ten years. They threaten to expose him and his schoolteacher daughter unless he gives them food and lets them hide the loot on his land.; Buck comes to Jacktown to visit a friend, but finds a pair of gunmen are operating an extortion racket taking advantage of an existing feud between the ranchers and the homesteaders.