Dart Maddon organizes an army of paid killers to rule the town of Conestoga in the High Sierras in 1859. Brace Wade comes to town and helps Parson Jeb Wright organize an vigilante group to take control from Maddon.; Gold is discovered at Yellow Creek. The Golden Glow Mining Company is storing its gold in its mine tunnels for later shipment. A gang plans to rob the mine and tricks the vigilantes of Conestoga into riding into a trap, where they are put to work digging a tunnel to the stored gold. The Parson and Brace, who had been out of town when the other men left, later come to Yellow Creek and find that their men had never arrived. With help from the mining company men, the Parson and Wade rescue the Conestoga men and capture the gang.; Vigilantes in Alder Gulch, Montana, capture an gang of outlaws led by Henry Plummer.; History of the vigilante organization in San Francisco in the 1850s-1860s.