Jean LaBerge has been awarded a land grant in the Ohio Wilderness. He leaves Vermont and travels west to claim his land. While traveling in a flatboat along the Ohio River he meets the lovely Hannah Cody, who is on her way to Kentucky with her parents. When they leave the boat, Laberge warns her father of unsavory men he has observed in the camp. They go their separate ways and Hannah, and her parents are abducted by these men and held for ransom...