When the law catches up with a man for a 15-year-old bank robbery and murder, the man deserts his wife and son. Six years later the bitter boy goes out on his own and becomes a gunslinger with the gang of El Lobo. In a bank robbery in Yuma, the boy finds out El Lobo's secret.; A peddler goes west with a load of goods, intending to start a general store. He is held up by three outlaws, but his double-barreled shotgun accidentally goes off, killing two and wounding the other. The surviving outlaw takes the man to his boss in Fire Creek to back up his embellished version of what happened, figuring he'd be in big trouble with the boss if he told him the truth. The boss makes the peddler the town's sheriff, thinking he's a gunslinger, but that doesn't work out the way he intended.; The owner of a small-town bank in Wyoming engages in theft and corruption in his quest to build an empire, but has it all come tumbling down with a event that occurs in California.; The crooked sheriff of a small town buys Scotty McCrepe's invention -- a portable gallows.