Newhall, California. A band of renegade Indians led by the half-breed "The Hawk" terrorizes prospectors in a valley. When the old prospector Clyde Selby hits the mother lode, The Hawk plans to kidnap his pretty blond daughter Mary Selby. This kidnapping actually proves one of the lesser of the perils faced by the poor Mary. Laramie, a government agent wants, with the help of his friendly Shoshone Indian friends, to extricate Mary.