A dying Marshal gives his identification papers to Tom Denton (Tom Tyler).
After Tom arrives in town, the papers drop and are found during a fight so Tom decides to assume the Marshal's identity.
Mason (William Gould), the chief, now sends Rattler (Slim Whitaker), the killer of the Marshal, to also kill Tom.
But when he overhears Tom is a fake, they change their plans and now go to arrest Tom for the murder of the Marshal.