The owner of the Bar J ranch is relatively new to the west and the creed the men live by there. He has a daughter who is in love with one of his hands Mitch Hallam who he has offered the job of foreman but Mitch is refusing to take the job until he can prove he has earned it out right. He leaves for Dodge City where he finds himself in a gunfight over a poker game and in jail for wearing a gun. The daughter Janey Travis pays his fine after accusing Earp of being a gunfighter that Mitch wants to emulate. Earp takes an interest in Mitch adding him as a deputy. Earp learns another hand named Lanigan has been pushing Mitch into gunfights. Eventually Mitch reveals to everyone he thinks Lanigan and other hands have been stealing cattle from Travis. Earp concocts a plan to ease the situation but it doesn't placate Lanigan and friends putting Mitch in a situation Janey and her dad don't understand.
—Anonymous