Ranch hand, fiddle footed Kiowa Jones, becomes a posseman when he assumes the responsibility of a dying Marshall to escort three prisoners to Fort Smith, one more valuable alive than dead. Along with a schoolteacher, Amilia Rathmore, who stiffens his spine but warms his heart, he routs some bounty hunters, disposes of a Vigilante family, and joins up with a hanging judge. He also gets hitched to Amilia... Danged folksy but friendly.