When O'Brien, a handsome young drifter comes across Uriah Cahill downed beside his camp-fire and about to be torn apart by a pack of wolves, he steps in and dispatches the marauders with deadly shots. Cahil explains that he is on his way to join a buffalo-hunting outfit run by Elias Walcott and persuades him to come along. When O'Brien, a handsome young drifter, saves Uriah Cahill from a pack of hungry wolves, Cahill explains that he is on his way to join a buffalo-hunting outfit run by Elias Walcott and persuades O'Brien to come along. But the company's foreman, Cyrus McComb, is unwilling to let anyone stop him winning Walcott's daughter. When it becomes clear to O'Brien that the desirable Molly Walcott has fallen passionately in love with him, he and Cahill decide it's time to move on. Fate, however, has other ideas...