Shalee Jethro (Dorothy Malone) helps her uncle run a desert stagecoach station. Five desperate outlaws arrive at the station to await a gold shipment they plan to rob, and Shalee becomes their hostage and bait in several ways, and the men begin to fight among themselves. After one of them attacks her, she is saved by Govern Sturges (John Lund), who turns out to be a Confederate officer planted among the gang.