Dusty discovers a treasure map, and his friends try to swindle him. Dusty gets sprayed by a skunk when he's playing dead when a bear comes around. Causing everyone to mistakenly believe he's dead.
While out scouting, Dusty sees an Indian boy being attacked by a bear, and ends up rescuing the boy. But it turns out the boy is the son of a Chief, and Dusty is leading the angry tribe right to the wagon train.
Dusty removes a thorn from a bear's paw and the bear follows him back to camp to everyone's consternation. Complicating things is a similar bear who attacks anyone in its way and hunters who want the bears eliminated, whether good or bad.
Brookhaven claims a ghost town for his own, but a series of near accidents leads to a man who already has a claim on the town. Little does the group know that the military is using the town as a test site for a new formulation of gunpowder, and will soon blow it up.