Tim Holt and Richard Martin are trying to get a ranch started, just as Nan Leslie is trying to get her paper started. When an Indian baby shows up at the boys' house, they try to care for the infant in the usual, ham-handed, comic way, but it leads to a story of crooked Indian agent Harry Woods, and some nice plot complications, with the location shots in the handsome Alabama Hills.
The legend is that Hollywood and the B westerns always treated Indians as evil savages until BROKEN ARROW. That's simply not true. While the A westerns often had battles with the Indians, that was an expensive shoot. Usually the Bs ignored Indians, had one or two for background characters... or made use of the Crooked Indian Agent plot. That's what we have here, in RKO's long-running and popular series of Bs, two years before Jewish Jeff Chandler played Indians and cowboys.