It’s set in Nevada just after the Civil War. Captain Ben Lassiter (Victor Mature), still clad in his Confederate uniform, and his ten-year-old daughter Abbey (Reba Waters) are going to the Oregon Territory to start a new life. At a rest stop at Fenniman’s Station, they encounter a Union Army pay wagon escort under the command of Lt. Weeks (John Hubbard). Traveling with the soldiers are sisters Martha (Faith Domergue) and Beth Drury (Elaine Stewart), who plan to join with another military squad led by Beth’s fiancé, Capt. Howard Poole (William Ching), and go West with them to a settlement in Oregon. Martha hates the Rebs because her fiancé was killed during the war, and takes an immediate dislike toward Ben. When the escort and the Drury sisters depart, a group of Modoc Indians trap Poole in an ambush and wait in ambush to attack the escort. They also attack Fenniman’s Station and kill everyone there. Ben decides to go off the trail and warn Weeks of the Indians. The Modocs are led by the renegade Tago (X. Brands), a former army scout with a chip on his shoulder. Ben feels it’s his chivalrous obligation to escort the sisters to safety, and he does so after he locates them in hiding after surviving the attack. He also promises to bring the army payroll to Poole, which the Indians left behind in the raid.