The brother (House Peters Jr.) of rancher Bill Martin (Bill Elliott) is killed in a stampede started by cattleman. Bill returns to the Fargo country to take his brother's place and is welcomed by law-abiding cattleman MacKenzie (Jack Ingram)) and his daughter Kathy (Phyllis Coates). The leader of the ruthless cattle interests are townsman Austin (Arthur Space) and his henchmen Red (Myron Healey), Link (Robert J. Wilke) and Albord (Terry Frost). Bill has the idea of putting up barbed wire to keep the herds from been driven over the land cultivated by the farmers. He, aided by Tad Sloan (Fuzzy Knight), produces the wire by make-shift methods, but it proves effective. The cattleman charge in court that the wire is dangerous to their herds but lose the case. Austin orders his men to seize Bill, bale him in strands of the wire, and throw him on the stage of the town hall during a fall festival. Bill doesn't take kindly to this and it precipitates open war.
Bill Elliott
as Bill Martin
Myron Healey
as Red Olsen
Phyllis Coates
as Kathy MacKenzie
Fuzzy Knight
as Tad Sloan
Arthur Space
as Austin
Jack Ingram
as Rancher MacKenzie
Robert J. Wilke
as Link - Henchman
Terry Frost
as Alvord - Henchman
Robert Bray
as Ed Murdock
Denver Pyle
as Carey
Tim Ryan
as Sam
Florence Lake
as Maggie
