Dan Reid sees a bank robbery while getting supplies in town. He returns to camp and notifies the Ranger. Dan mentions that Tonto is away attending his tribe's council meeting. Which tribe isn't divulged. The two outlaws. Moose Miller and Pecos Smith, head for a farm belonging to Miller's old acquaintance Jim Haskell. Jim lives there with his widowed daughter-in-law Elizabeth and her teenage son, Shelby. Shelby loves hearing Jim's stories of the glamorous outlaw life and yearns to be an outlaw himself, much against his mother's wishes. Jim agrees to hide out Moose and Pecos, but things get dangerous when the Ranger and Dan show up and ask a lot of questions. And young Shelby wants to go with the outlaws when they leave. The heat gets turned up when Pecos gets wounded and captured while trying to bushwhack the good guys. Now Moose has to clear out fast and needs Shelby to show him the way. Can Shelby ever be deterred from beginning a life of crime?
Natalie Masters was 39 years old when she made this, her very first appearance in front of the cameras for TV/movies. Prior to this, she was an experienced radio actress and from 1949-1951 starred in the series "Candy Matson," in which she played a female detective. Natalie made successful a transition from radio to TV/movies and worked steadily from 1955 to 1987.