When Crado Bluestone buys some cattle to start his own ranch, it comes as a brutal shock when he is accused of being a rustler and is strung up from a tree. The real cattle thieves, led by a killer named Monk Purvis, leave him for dead. Help is close at hand, however, in the form of a Texas Ranger, who rescues the hapless cowboy just before he chokes to death at the end of the rope. But revenge burns deep in Bluestone's heart to even the score...