Four brothers put their days as Confederate soldiers behind them and head west in this tale set just after the end of the Civil War. Britt Canfield (Randolph Scott) takes a job with the Santa Fe Railroad, but his brothers (Jerome Courtland, Peter Thompson and John Archer) choose the outlaw lifestyle. When his siblings run into some serious trouble, Canfield must save them from a corrupt gambling boss (Roy Roberts) and his dastardly henchmen.