 Ned Travis is a reporter for the New York Herald who s made something of a career for himself writing about Jason McCord and Bitter Creek. He wants McCord to tell him the truth about what it s like to be the most hated man in the territory and what really happened at Bitter Creek. McCord won t talk so Travis goes to Mrs. Pritchett whose husband Lt. John Pritchett was killed at Bitter Creek. She shows him letters which could tell the true story of the incident once and for all but McCord has reasons of his own for not wanting the truth to be revealed.