Government agent Steve Brent, alias the Durango Kid(Charles Starrett) gets involved in a range war between cattlemen and sheepmen in Timber Rock. Cattlemen sluaghter their herds to keep the prices high---Economics 101---and blame the destruction on the sheepmen---Plot Device 6. Jack Mahoney (Jock Mahoney as Jack Mahoney), leader of the sheepmen, is falsely accused of killing rancher Jim Woodstock (Frank O`Connor), which leads Woodstock`s daughter, Roberta (Dani Sue Nolan,somewhat miffed at Mahoney and she breaks their engagement. Brent joins the cattlemen, as a ruse, to find the real killer. Smiley Burnette sings a song called "It`s Got To Get Better", but it doesn`t.