Hiring an outfit, he gathers a herd of wild longhorns in Texas and hits the road. Following the Goodnight Loving trail into Colorado, he sells the beeves for almost fifty thousand dollars. But when he rides back towards Texas with his money, he finds worse trouble awaiting him than he had faced on the dangerous outwards trip. It had been bad enough with the herd, fighting off Comanches, battling against stampedes and rustlers, but then he had known his enemies. Now they’re a different brand: stealthy, secretive, and utterly ruthless. Early into his journey he breaks for the night at Wagon Wheel, unaware he’s ridden straight into a set-up. The trap was planted by a group of local crooked lawmen and their associates who had been tipped off about Farrell’s recent earnings. With their greedy eyes focused on his small fortune, they waste no time in drugging Farrell and locking him up in the town’s jail under false charges. Caught totally unawares and trapped in this nightmare situation, Farrell needs more than ordinary determination and courage to win through…