Gabe Cutter's brother is hanged without trial by the town of Red Sky, just before they learn he was innocent. In revenge, Gabe vows to destroy the town, and works with a recently released outlaw and his recruits to rob it dry.
A struggling rancher teams up with a fancy hat salesman and an embezzler to rob an armored wagon of 100 thousand dollars, but it crosses the line into murder.
Chad Burns leads an outlaw gang that has been robbing numerous banks and trains, but he has charmed the people of his town so much into seeing him as a Robin Hood figure that they refuse to help the law by testifying against him.
Four men long on the run together have been offered amnesty for participating against rancher Clay Fisher in the Johnson County Range War. But Fisher has no intention of letting them receive it, and tries to maneuver them into violating it before it takes affect.
Trail boss Rance Hollister has scrimped and saved for ten years to buy a spread of land. When he learns the bank is closed and his hard-earned $4,000 gone, Rance snaps and joins with his three trusty trail hands in pulling a train robbery.
Angered by a court order that he must allow other ranchers to take their cattle on a trail through land he claims, rancher Jack Duane decides to prove that no one pushes him around---by killing a neighboring rancher. He then threatens to kill the only witness to the murder as well.