Scouting for a better pass, Flint finds a mountain man, hungry and half out of his mind. With no memory, his strange behavior may endanger the entire wagon train especially when everyone feels they know who he is.
With cold weather upon them, Flint is scouting for a shorter pass to get across the mountains. He encounters a crazed man and brings him back to the train. The man is starved and barely able to talk or respond. While continuing his scouting duties Flint finds graves and the man's camp which are the remnants of a lost wagon train. Ellen Emerson and her dad are on the train looking for the man she was to marry who was on the lost train so she wants to ask the survivor what happened to him. The man escapes camp and Flint finds him at his old camp burning a diary. Flint recovers the diary and returns with the man. Ellen reads the diary and learns that a man named George Danton had stolen food and had not suffered the starvation of the others. Upon learning this the members of the train want to hang Danton but Adams is emphatic they leave him to the law. During a delay due to a broken axle, the men want to lynch Danton.During the commotion Danton steals a revolver and shoots himself but not fatally. Flint discovers Danton left a suicide note in the diary which changes the facts.—Anonymous