Summary
Wally Fraser, played by the rugged Hal Taliaferro, rides into Juniper City with a singular, dark purpose: to settle a lethal debt. He believes Dawson, a seemingly respectable local banker, is the man responsible for his father’s murder. The narrative trajectory shifts when Wally intervenes in a life-threatening runaway horse incident involving Mildred Crawford, the daughter of a local rancher. This act of heroism draws him into a complex web of local corruption. When Wally exposes the gambler Al Meggs—portrayed with a chilling early-career intensity by Boris Karloff—as a cheat, he inadvertently triggers a chain of violence that leads Meggs to seek refuge with the treacherous Dawson. The conflict culminates during a high-stakes cattle drive intended to save the Crawford ranch from Dawson’s predatory loans. Wally must navigate a landscape of robbery and betrayal to secure a receipt of payment, leading to a final confrontation where the lines between villainy and vengeance blur in a dusty, bullet-ridden climax.
Synopsis
Wally Fraser comes to Juniper City to take revenge on the murderer of his father, whom he believes to be Dawson, a local banker. After rescuing the daughter of rancher Crawford from a runaway team, Wally warns Crawford that Al Meggs is cheating in a poker game; in a fight Meggs kills a man and seeks shelter with Dawson. Crawford hires Wally to help drive to the railroad a shipment of cattle, the funds from which are to pay off notes to Dawson. Wally forces Dawson to accept the money and give them a receipt, but they are robbed by Meggs; Wally finds Meggs dying, and before Dawson can shoot him, Meggs finishes off the villain. Wally wins the rancher's daughter, Mildred.
