It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
Wallace Beery
as Skinner Bill Bragg, an Alias of Ambrose Murphy
Leo Carrillo
as Piute Pete
Marjorie Rambeau
as Josie Johnson
Anne Baxter
as Jean Johnson
Douglas Fowley
as Stag Roper
Noah Beery Jr.
as Mitch
Berton Churchill
as 'Jackass' Brown
Arthur Hohl
as Salters
Clem Bevans
as Chuckawalla
Charles Halton
as Henry Adams
Minor Watson
as Marshal
Oscar O'Shea
as Train Conductor
