When rancher Cliff Sinclair offers the homesteaders of Two Forks three dollars for an acre of their land, Dalton thinks the deal is just too good to be true. But most of the townsfolk are delighted to take the apparently generous offer - Dalton and his friend Loren Steele are the only ones to say no. Sadly, Dalton discovers he was right to be suspicious when Cliff's hired gunslinger, McKinley Kelley, kills Loren and runs Dalton out of town...