In Thirsty Acres, Clay Garrison is informed by the Sheriff that his brother Buck has been hanging out at Frisco Dan Drew's saloon. In the meantime water holes are being poisoned and Drew is buying up ranches as fast as he can. Clay decides to try to bring Buck to his senses. In Hell For Sale, Russ Cameron works as a commission agent for a syndicate. He tries to purchase the Harpoon Ranch but unfortunately the ranch is at the center of a range dispute with Ed Jarrett. He has been trying to acquire that range for years. Cameron wonders what would happen if he made an offer of his own? In Proud Rider, a young Navajo Indian named Juan is a slave working on the great rancho of Don Pascual. Juan has gentled the wild stallion Diablo enough so that he can ride him. This marks the beginning of traumatic changes that will find him stealing Diablo and fleeing the rancho, only to fall in with a gang of renegades.