Deputy Sheriff Lew Kennett is up against it: the Hap Ivy gang are on the prowl, rustlers are at work, and a thief has been busy in town. When Kennett sets out to capture an outlaw, the situation gets wildly out of hand; and whilst surviving an ambush and preventing a lynching, he is caught up in another facet of local crime and has to kill a townsman. In Black Horse Creek, the sheriff's life is always on the line, and he is determined to beat the odds and stay alive...