Steve Allison warns freight-line owner Dan Parks not to transport U. S. gold, but when a hidden shipment is discovered on one his wagons, the suspicion lands on Parks, who resists arrest and flees. Allison, in his later-ego guise of the Durango Kid, sets out to clear his friend of the framed-up charge, by his crooked partner, Morgan, and also reunite him with his young son, Ronnie.