Trampas has built up a couple weeks of vacation which he is ready to take. He leaves for a town to renew a good time with a saloon girl named Mary Lou. However, he finds she is now married to the bar owner who knocks out Trampas. A bounty hunter in the bar decides Trampas is his target taking the unconscious Trampas back to the small town of Calumet. He turns Trampas and a gold watch he says he found on Trampas over to the Sheriff. He collects the reward and a little extra from Ezra Gates, a wealthy rancher who controls Calumet. Saloon girl Abby Clayton swears to the Sheriff she saw Trampas kill the local doctor. The town is upset over the murder of their beloved doctor who was killed for the gold watch the city gave him. Trampas declares he is innocent asking that the Sheriff send a telegram to Shiloh to prove he couldn't have killed the doctor. When the bar owner won't send food to the jail, the Sheriff takes Trampas there to eat and where he confronts Abby. Abby is the girlfriend of Josh Gates, Ezra's son. Josh is manipulating Abby, the deputy and eventually his father to ensure Trampas is hung.
—Anonymous