Cattle baron Nat Erdlatter has built his empire by taking what he wants then ruthlessly holding on to it. Even now, with the Homestead Act encouraging people to settle on range land that he has always considered his own, he believes that his needs take preference over the government's decrees. But times are changing and the citizens of the nearby town of Enterprise are angered by his latest callous act, none more so than his former ranch hands Clem Rawlings and Gus Farley, who become embroiled in an affair which can only lead to violence, and danger...