Jesse Garnett's friend, handsome gambler Kip Mallory, falls in love and runs off with beautiful Michelle Logan, the girlfriend of cattle baron Harlan Preston. Angry at being betrayed, Preston leads the hunt to track the two lovers down and kill them. He takes along a can of lamp oil because he intends to burn their bodies in an old line shack. When Garnett learns of this, he rides out to stop Preston. It all comes to a breaking point when Garnett and Mallory face off with Preston and his men under a hanging tree by the old stagecoach road to Bremer's Rock.