After the Spanish-American War, Roy and the other farmer Rough Rider pals join the border patrol to stop the outlaws from robbing gold from stages and express offices. Roy did not star in this film. Republic contractee John Wayne had recently scored a big hit in John Ford's Stagecoach, and Republic decided to see if the lightning could strike twice for the star within a year's time. This is the one film in which the outlaw James boys are not guilty of the bank robbery that is under investigation. Roy learns it's the bank officials who are the guilty parties.
Trigger is kidnapped and held for ransom by a gang of toughs.
Rancher Rogers and his range hands take out after them and eventually retrieve Roy's palomino pal. Roy is a sheriff attempting to capture a gang of hoodlums who are trying to gain control of an airport by sabotaging the planes. Roy plays a famous cowboy radio singer who returns to his hometown for a radio appearance. Soon he's embroiled in a cattlemen-sheepmen feud. The sheriff is after the wrong man, as it turns out, and Roy, working with the local newspaper editor, rounds up the bad guy and gets his story.