In the late 1800s, in the Arizona desert, notorious gunman Wes Steele’s horse breaks a leg, forcing Wes to shoot the animal. Hours later, now traveling on foot, Wes comes upon the murdered victims of a stagecoach robbery. After releasing the surviving horses, Wes mounts one and rides to the town of Mesa. Steele is framed for a crime that he didn’t commit, he is forced to hide under the home of the town sheriff, where he eventually earns the sheriff’s trust and faces the townspeople side by side with him.