Dave Carver and his wife Carolyn, had been city folks back east, and when the westward rush began, they like so many others, sold out house and home and headed for the frontier to begin a new life. But although they meant well, they were not accustomed to the difficulties of the journey, and by the time the wagon train they had joined reached the town, they were weary and fell prey to a pair of scheming land boomers...