Kiley Cheever's father, the sheriff, is fed up with his son's bratty behavior. After publicly humiliating him, Kiley decides to leave Texas and head to Medicine Bow to find his old friend Trampas from his childhood and ask for a job at Shiloh. His personality trait of embellishing his abilities creates tension with the hands at Shiloh plus his interest in Granger's niece Melissa who arrived while the Grangers are gone. Melissa visiting Shiloh takes a shine to Kiley while still seeing his flaws and letting him know it. A feud develops between Kiley and ranch hand Moran when Kiley trick shoots a mug in Moran's hand which eventually erupts into a fist fight between them. An old hand, Charlie, who knows Kiley's dad takes a shine to Kiley but loses his job when Kiley lets him take the blame for starting a fire in the stable while drunk which was really started by Kiley.
—Anonymous