When the ever popular cavalryman Sgt. Clayton Tyce is found drinking in a Cimarron bar having abandoned is duties, he is offered the painful choice of an honourable discharge or face a court-martial. Striped of all he knows, the ex-soldier seeks revenge on the sergeant major he holds responsible for his discharge. Meanwhile Marshal Jim Crown has his hands full trying to locate some cattle rustlers with an uncanny knack of avoiding army patrols - someone's been tipping them off.
