Drag Harlan is a gunfighter with a fearsome reputation. He is known for his quickness with his guns. A mean, hard country man, he comes quite accidently by a dying man, Morgan. Morgan is cattleman and has left his ranch to his only daughter, Barbara. Seeing honesty in Harlans eyes, Morgan asks him to go to his daughter and protect her from fortune hunters. Thereafter Harlan establishes himself as the protector of Barbara Morgan and deals out punishment to the girls enemies through the lightning flash of drawn guns. A story filled with hard action, toughened cowboys, and sweeping romance from an American author of Westerns Charles Alden Seltzer who also wrote under the pseudonym Hiram Hopkins.