A string of mail robberies bring Gene and Smiley to Red Valley, an area controlled by Jim Lassiter. Gene knows Lassiter is the head of the outlaw gangs working in Red Valley but needs proof. He offers to buy some of Lassiter's land and Lassiter demands cash. Gene brings the money knowing Lassiter will try and get it but things change when two of Lassiter's henchmen, knowing their cut will be small, take the money for themselves and flee.