Planning to despoil the rich Wagon Wheel Country, a lumber baron and a railroad king combine forces to build a road through the heart of the area, and log off all the timber. To help mold public opinion on the matter they hire Ann Carr (Marjorie Reynolds), a noted journalist to publicize the affair. But Scott Baylor (George O'Brien), the leader of the cattlemen in this district, is strongly opposed to the coming of the road, and so is his his fiery old uncle Henry Clay Baylor (Earl Dwire), who owns the only newspaper in that section. The two crooks dispossess Uncle Henry, and put Ann in as editor of the paper, while Scott seeks proof of the illegal homesteading and land-stealing which he knows the newcomers are promoting in order to obtain more timber. Scott and his pal Whooper Hatch (Chill Wills), blocked when the robber barons gain control of the local courts and their hired killer murders Sheriff Lyman (Bob Burns), obtain photographic proof of the land-grab scheme and with this they convince Ann that the crooks should be exposed through the newspaper. Scott, Ann and Uncle Henry take refuge in the printing office in order to run off a special edition but are attacked by the henchmen of of the crooks.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
