An odd welcome in Ravalli, Montana - a bar brawl, a jail cell and a murder charge. Eagle and two other prisoners escape the cell, steal three horses and disappear into the rugged mountains. A letter containing evidence of a string of baffling crimes is hidden in the saddlebags of one of the stolen horses, and the owner is frantic to have it back. Charges of murder, horse thievery, assaulting an officer of the law, aiding prisoners to escape - a mountain of trouble no innocent man should have to bear. Yet Eagle finds these troubles to be only the beginning.