Around the beginning of the twentieth century, an adventurer, Jack Halliday, using the assumed name of Don Pedro de Berendo, perpetrates a land-grant swindle that is upheld by the United States courts. With an accomplice,Larry Madden, he immediately begins a reign of terror against the ranchers the land actually belongs to. While the ranchers offer little resistance, two roaming cowboys, Jim Bradley and 'Hardtack", have their horses confiscated by Halliday's tax-collecting henchmen, and they become modern-day robin-hoods by robbing Halliday's tax collectors and returning the money to the ranchers.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>