When the Texas cattle trails to Kansas are blocked, cattle buyer Gene Autry (
Gene Autry) goes to Texas to investigate. There, he finds his friend, land-agent "Buckeye" Buttram (
Pat Buttram)and pretty Gay Kendall (
Anne James, a newspaper reporter, siding with the homesteaders in a rancher-settlers dispute instigated by speculator Steve Ruttledge (
Leonard Penn), in a land-grab scheme in which he will benefit when the railroad is built across the land he hopes to control.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>