After escaping a lynch mob, Gar Davis (Clint Walker) disguises himself in a dead man's clothes and stumbles upon a farm. When Comanches attack the homestead, Gar leaps into action to defend the hapless residents -- widow Celia Gray (Virginia Mayo) and her son Chad (Richard Eyer). A tenuous romance develops between Gar and Celia when he escorts the family to Fort Dobbs. But everything changes when Celia discovers the stranger is wearing her dead husband's jacket.