A rare Francis Ford westerns!. Ned Hadley is summoned home to save the mining claim of his estranged family but is gunned down by bandits before he can make it home. Gravely wounded he pleads with his friend, the lonesome cowboy known as The Stranger, to assume his identity and go home to help his sister, Nell, and his blind father. However saving the Hadley family and mine won't be easy because the greedy Sly Stevens is after the property for himself!