Young Gilby Collins outshoots ""the Great Kinsey"" in a carnival competition and wins a gun. When Nita, Kinsey's assistant, congratulates Collins, her sore-loser boss manhandles her. Collins comes to her defense, Kinsey draws a gun, and Collins shoots him dead. Kinsey's relatives, the Crawfords, plan to lynch Collins despite Nita's insistence that Collins fired in self defense. Cheyenne steps forward, saying that Collins should be taken to the Marshal in a nearby town for a fair trial. Not trusting the legal system, however, Collins flees toward Mexico along with Nita. The elder Crawford organizes a posse and goes after them. Cheyenne rides along with the posse, anxious to see that justice is done even if it means risking a horsewhipping at the hands of the vengeful Crawford.