Jack Ryder, working on a ranch in the high country, hopes to become foreman and marry the boss's daughter, but he blows it. He hits the bottle, not to mention a few of his work mates, before heading off in a drunken haze. Sitting on a log in the drizzling rain, gun in hand, the end in mind, he decides to give it one more try.

Needless to say, old habits die hard, and it could be many a year before that hot headed youth will rest easy within the cloak of maturity. In the meantime, many trials are to be faced, a few women will be loved, many men will die.