A broad shouldered and hearty Irishman is headed for a job laying track at the the end of the line. His plans are changed when trouble finds him at a railroad station somewhere on the plains.
Intent on reclaiming his farm--which was bought out from under him while forght in the Civil War--John Buckner steals the railroad's payroll from the bank and is pursued by a railroad detective and his posse.
In the late 1800s while on a cattle drive which takes him north from Texas, seventeen-year-old Wylie learns that it is no longer necessary to run from the father he never knew.
Lonesome Bob and Granny Apple Fritter have to get to Red Rock by two o'clock or Lonesome will miss his wedding, Railroad John has never been late so nothing will keep him from pulling the train in by 1:59.