Rugged cowboy and lawyer Tex Haines, (Tex Ritter) is summoned to the Texas Rangers field station in an effort to locate and recover almost a million dollars in gold coins stolen from a US Government wagon train years before. Tex, along with Ranger Dave Wyatt (Dave O'Brien) and the lanky cowpoke Panhandle Perkins (Guy Wilkerson), must follow the criminal mastermind Wild Charley Gray when he is paroled from prison in hopes he will lead them to the hidden money. Tex Ritter's illustrious career as a singing cowboy actor earned him legendary status as a western screen star in the '20s and '30s and as a popular recording artist.