Dr. John Shasta left Chicago to avoid a prison term for crippling a man in a street brawl. When he arrived in Greenwood, Wyoming he found a man he looked up to like a father figure and settled down to practice medicine in a community of untamed men. When Edward Collier dies, he leaves John the guardianship of his daughter, Antonia, with permission to marry her. John accepts his responsibility and takes a position as a contract doctor at Fort Laramie...