 Movie cowboy star Spencer Yorke (Charles Starrett), tired of the Hollywood life, refuses to sign the new contract offered him by producer Jack Kingswell (Landers Stevens), and he and his pal Buckshot (Si Jenks) go to Arizona in search of a ranch to buy. The cowtown of Taylorsville is so dull that Sheriff Clem Baker (Edward Peil) bemoans the lack of criminal activity, and his daughter Mary (Iris Meredith, in the first of 20 films made with Charles Starrett), a real estate agent, finds the town equally boring. Her kid brother Jimmy (Wally Albright), a big fan of Spencer Yorke, tries to persuade his father to let him visit "Ghost Town," nearby and deserted. Upon his arrival, Jimmy recognizes Spencer, but he insists his name is George Weston. Mary discovers his true identity when she sells him a ranch, but she gives him a pledge of secrecy. Three big-city gangsters, Johnny Sampson (Marc Lawrence), Pretty-Boy Hogan (Ralph McCullough) and "Midget" (Nick Copeland), fleeing their latest crime, are hiding out in the closed saloon in "Ghost Town." Jimmy, disobeying his father, rides into the town and is taken prisoner by the criminals as they believe he has been sent to spy on them. They plan to ambush and kill the Sheriff and Yorke, whom they think is a G-man, when they come looking for the boy.