Deputy Lane Temple becomes suspicious of two parties of people who arrived in Cimarron City simultaneously. He discovers that a Mexican colonel, Ruiz Gutierez, and a renegade U.S. soldier named Josh Matthews have joined forces to start an insurrection that will return Texas to Mexico. Temple decides to turn the two partners against each other. He and his friend Tiny set out to steal Gutierez's gold, with which he was to pay Matthews for his part in the plot. Temple hopes to further his own plans by romancing Gutierez's fiancee Elena.
—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>