A deputy sheriff sets out to hunt down and kill the outlaw who killed his boss. Along the way, he is joined by a ruthless bounty hunter determined to claim the reward for the fugitive and a woman left to die in the desert. Western, starring Sterling Hayden and Yvonne de Carlo.

Clay Hardin, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, is about to turn in his badge and take the job as the territory's Indian commissioner until the notorious Ben Thompson slays the marshal when he tried to make an arrest. Clay turns his back on a white-collar job and his girl to pursue the gang. Picking up a bounty hunter and a beautiful half-breed woman along the way, the little band follows the trail into Apache land where the lawman discovers that the outlaws plan to sell repeating rifles to the Indians.