Vicki is fleeing New Mexico with $20,000. Her husband was murdered and there is a warrant out her her arrest, even though she is innocent and the money is hers. Headed east on a train, she ends up across the aisle from a man who turns out to be a bounty hunter. He is on the trail of a desperado, but sees, she has a lot of money on her. Vicki alludes him and makes it to Junction City Kansas, where she meets the Wells Fargo clerk and they have a mutual attraction. You just know that the bounty hunter and his prey make their way to Junction City, eventually.