Released from Yuma prison after serving five years for a crime he didn't commit, Jubal Brand travels to a remote ghost town in the Arizona desert hoping to uncover a trunk of Confederate gold. Jubal was told by a dying outlaw in prison where the gold was hidden. Jubal wants that gold as a reward for serving time with robbers who refused to clear his name. But he soon learns that escaped murderer Edward Cobb is also searching for the gold, along with Lani St. Claire, a beautiful but mysterious dove. With a dangerous Apache on the loose, and with enigmatic U. S. Marshal Maxfield Knight tracking Cobb, Brand fears that he won't live long enough to spend any of that gold.