Ben Wheeler learned his law in a Yankee prison, but he learned to be a
gunman on the Chisholm Trail. In prison he met the lovely Quaker nurse
Abigail Carter, who agrees to become Wheeler's bride when he is paroled
after the Confederate surrender. At the urging of his mentor, Angus
Finlay, the couple moves to San Miguel, Texas, and stake out a small
claim. But then a blaze of bullets takes away his bride in a bank
holdup, and Wheeler vows to find her killers. He signs on as a trail
hand on Finlay's cattle drive up the Chisholm Trail, pursuing justice
frontier-style.