Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands and joins an outlaw gang who prey on gold prospectors. Years later, he meets his wife and her gold-prospecting father, who have come to seek their fortune; as they don't know the danger of the treacherous desert wastes, poisoned-water holes, and outlaw bands of marauders who roam the desert in search of the gold found by others, he helps them, and eventually manages to clear his name of the false charges against him.