John Gower, a local rancher from Cottonwood, Colorado finds an overturned wagon with his dead neighbor and injured bride underneath. He takes the young widow to his home to care for and keep her out of danger. Just when John and his young daughter begin to get used to the strange woman, trouble starts on the other side of town. Just across the valley the mean and powerful Colonel Howling tries to illegally acquire all the cattle land. Now John must fight to to save his new family from the wrath of the Colonel.