Marshal Will Titus returns to Circle City to pay his final respects to the woman who had raised him--and to arrest the woman's son, who had become an outlaw, but there were some who were determined to make this job anything but easy.
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.