Plot

Jack Pepper accidentally fires his gun while forcing a newspaper editor to retract his statement regarding Miss Tulip Hellier, and the sheriff goes after Jack. While hiding out, Jack finds a liquor cache on the Hellier ranch and knows it was placed there as a ruse to distract the sheriff while an outlaw gang runs dope across the border.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Jasper Murchison operates a small town newspaper in Texas as a front for jewel smuggling. He publishes a scandalous notice about Tulip Hellier and Phil Curtis, a young easterner employed on the Hellier ranch. Jack Pepper, known as "Don Quickshot," forces Murchison to retract the story, and during their confrontation a gun is accidentally fired; Murchison tells the sheriff that Jack tried to kill him, and Jack becomes a hunted man. Hiding on the Hellier ranch, Jack discovers that Lou Burkhold, ostensibly bootlegging, is smuggling diamonds in league with Murchison; also that he is keeping Laura, his daughter, from her husband, Phil, so as to involve her in the conspiracy. Jack accuses Murchison of treachery and fraud, brings about the arrest of the gang, and wins the heart of Tulip.—AFI Catalog