A Texas settler and his daughter Sally start on a journey in a prairie schooner after bidding farewell to Sallys mother and to Tom the ranger who is operating in the neighborhood on a lookout for cattle rustlers and illicit whiskey sellers The great wagon is hauled out of the corral by a pair of spirited horses while ranger Tom departs to take up the trail of a bootlegger who is reported to have been operating among the Indians thereabouts