Panhandle 1948 John Sands Rod Cameron, formerly a Texas marshal whose talents with guns caused the law to turn against him,is a fugitive in Mexico, when he learns from Dusty Stewart Cathy Downsthat his brother in the Texas panhandle, Billy Sands John C Champion, her fiance and crusading newspaperman, his been mysteriously murdered in Sentinel, Texas Despite the price on his head, Sands comes north to the panhandle to find his brothers killer