Having lost his horse in a stake, Pat Brennan hitches a ride using a stagecoach carrying Willard, newly weds and Doretta Mims. At the station the trainer and its own passengers fall in to the hands of a trio of outlaws headed by a man. He decides to carry her If Usher discovers that Doretta may be the daughter of a rich coppermine owner. Tension builds within another 24 hours as a romantic attachment grows between Brennan and Doretta and since Usher awaits a reply.