Badman's Territory

After a clash with Captain Hampton over the arrest of his friend, "Honest Jim" Badger, Deputy Sheriff John Rowley is wounded. Frank and Jesse James rescue Badger and take John with them to the town of Quinto, in the Oklahoma Territory, for treatment. John's older brother, Mark, a Texas Sheriff, quarrels with Hampton over the shooting affair an, seizing Hampton's horse to replace his own horse which was stolen by the James gang, rides off after John, with Hampton swearing vengeance. In Quinto, Mark meets Henryette Alcott, a newspaper editor crusading to have the lawless territory given statehood. Henryette is opposed not only the outlaws who use the town and territory to escape the law, but also by the local cattlemen who prefer their present tax-free status as part of a territory and not a state of the union. Colonel Farewell, head of the cattlemen, induces Mark to become the sheriff of Quinto. Mark follows John and Badger who have gone with the Dalton gang on a raid of Coffeyville, Kansas, but is too late to keep John from being killed in the raid. He and Badger return to Quinto where Hampton, now a U.S.Marshal, traps Mark and kills Badger. Mark is handcuffed and now at the mercy of the vicious Hampton.