After serving a 10-year prison sentence for the killing of a man named Mears, Ed Wheeler (
Laton Riley Kirk Sr.) kills Jim Gramby (
Carleton Young), Goldtown's crooked boss. Gene Autry (
Gene Autry), circuit judge of the district court, captures Wheeler, who claims Granby and Mears were the same person, and he has already served his sentence and can not be tried again. In flashback, Wheeler tells how he and Mears'Granby were partners in selling fake gold claims, and then frightened prospectors away with a band of outlaws disguised as Ghost Riders. When his daughter, Cathy (
Gail Davis), came home from school, Wheeler tried to go straight, but Granby/Mears objected. Wheeler then tried to blow up Granby/Mears in a mine explosion, but the latter escape...after planting evidence that a man named Mears had been killed.
—Les Adams<longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>