When Jake Sloane can't take the measure of a dude named Theodore in a barbershop brawl, Sugarfoot decides to find out more about the dude. One thing he finds out is that his last name is Roosevelt.
Chief Red Wing of the Sioux Indians is on his way to Chicago for a conference with President Grant. Sugarfoot has been hired to accompany the chief to see that he doesn't get assassinated.
John Brice is in town to investigate charges of corruption. When someone tries to murder Brice, Toothy Thompson, a long-time troublemaker, is jailed as a suspect.
Greed rancher John Peel tries to use grazing land belonging to a shepherd named Joachin. The shepherd can't defend his property, but his son Pablo can, and he's got a gun to help him.
Sugarfoot and his pal Toothy Thompson don't mind helping out Sheriff Boyce with a gang of killers, but they would like to know just who the leader of the gang is.
Sugarfoot loads the bodies of two murderers onto a horse and brings them into town. Although the killers shot each other, the townspeople are convinced that Sugarfoot is the fast gun who got them both.
Jimmy and Rance Benbow are accused of murder, and Sugarfoot is appointed their defense counsel. He knows he has got a tough case when he sees that the prosecuting attorney is Rhonda Rigsby, the daughter of the murdered man.
