The return of the sheriff

Dan McCoy, Sheriff of Red Springs, is branded a coward by the townsfolk when he backs down from a gunfight with Wes Brown, foreman of the Circle C. His girl also turns against him and he leaves town. Three years later, his sick mother, worried by the influence which Wes Brown is having on Dan's younger brother, asks Dan to return. Helped by friends, he pursues suspicions he formed when he was sheriff, yet for Dan to win back the love of his girl, save his brother and clear his own name, a gunfight showdown with Wes Brown still seems the only way.