Gil Slatter is quick on the draw and has a head for running a ranch, but he is a lonely man with only a cot in the bunkhouse at the TXY Ranch to call home. Then the ranch's foreman drops dead of a heart attack. Picked to take his place, Gil's entire world turns upside down. One day life is simple. The next he is running the entire outfit. But the old foreman also leaves behind a daughter, a willful young woman named Kate. When Gil drops by to pay his respects, she shocks him with a proposal of marriage.