When Shawn Starbuck witnesses the vicious slayings of two prominent miners, an unruly crowd, gone berserk, mistakes him for the killer - and drags him off to be lynched. He is saved only by the testimony of a handsome woman called Silver Rose Johnson, owner of the Lady Luck saloon. But Shawn's involvement gets deeper and deeper as more killings occur, and both he and Silver Rose are forced to flee for their lives.