Redwood Valley residents raise $50,000 for blasting a mountain tunnel to bring a new railroad there. Town leader Bidwell (
James Craven) engineers a plot to steal the money and to blame it on the Reno Kid (
Bob Steele) who has recently broken out of prison in order to clear himself of false charges that sent him there and caused him to lose his ranch. The badly-wounded sheriff turns his badge over to Red Ryder (
Bill Elliott). Reno visits his wife, Molly (
Peggy Stewart) and their ailing son Johnny (
John Wayne Wright), and Red, also wounded, is brought there by Little Beaver (
Robert Blake. There, Red begins to believe Reno's story about being innocent.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>