In 1874 Utah territory, young teamster Buck McCready becomes wagon boss for the Kavanaugh freight outfit after his mentor, Mason Campbell, is murdered. With the Kavanaugh outfit engaged in a wagon train race that will decide whether Kavanaugh or a competitor lands a lucrative freight-hauling contract, Buck vows to find Campbell"s killer. But first he must win the race, a difficult task considering there"s a saboteur among his crew and a hired gun out to take him down, plus the possibility that Campbell"s killer is after Buck, too.