Rawhide Jake works undercover at the Flying XC Ranch and manages to track down and arrest five rustlers. On the spring round-up, he saves the life of the cow boss, Walt Guthrie. Jake and Wes hook up again, take down a four-man rustling crew where Jake is almost killed, start a fencing company, and thwart an 800 head theft that leaves both of them wounded. Jake battles a range fire and a pair of drifters. He kills a wanted murderer, is himself accused of murder, and jailed. He is released, but the insult prompts him to leave Texas for Arizona.
