Kimball and his henchmen have murdered rancher Wilson and obtained the deed to his ranch.As he tries to move out Wilson's daughter Rider and Dick take a hand. However Dick is captured.
Geiger ,with the help of crooked lawyer Bemis , tries to wipe out his relatives in order to gain their inheritance.However his nephew young Donnie survives and the Rider and Dick try to ensure he stays alive.
The railroad's route makes Beth Harper's ranch valuable and Crutch Bellows and his henchmen plan to take control of it by killing off Beth's ranch hands one by one. When the Rider gets involved they kidnap Dick.
Dawson and lawyer Barton forge a bill of sale which restricts the other ranchers water rights hoping to ruin them.Rider poses as dead gunman Sundown Saunders to discover their plot.
A partnership between four ranchers looks like being dissolved when two end up dead ,one .Mel Bard,fears for his life and the other,Dick's uncle Charley Melton,a suspect.However Bard and his cook ,Spud,are not what they seem.
Sheriff Hollister sends for the Range Rider when a masked bandit called the Hawk continues to evade him.The bandit sees his confrontation with the Rider as a challenge and taunts him with poems left at his crime scenes.
Gorham and his henchmen kill Uncle Toby for the gold mine claim he has for his niece Virginia.The Range Rider and Dick come into possession of the claim thwart the outlaws attempts to steal it.
Banker Mayfield is using Dick as a front to sell shares in a worthless gold mine and when assayer Fred Richie finds out henchman Cooper kills him . The sheriff arrests Range Rider as a suspect and a lynch mob gathers.
Range Rider ,Dick and the sheriff are on the trail of Mason and his gang ,Muley and Paul.However the gang sets a trap for Rider ,capture him and force him to use his tracking skills to find a lost gold mine.
Store owner McNair is robbing wagons from settlers and the latest victims are Harris and his young daughter Sally.While the wounded Harris holds up with ornery old rancher Flattery Range Rider sets a trap for McNair.
Rancher Baker hopes to buy a neighboring ranch,owned by Cyrus Underhill,by framing Underhill's grandson Vern for murder.Range Rider finds boot prints at the scene of the crime.
Outlaw The Apache Kid hatches a plot in which gang member Cliff hands him into the sheriff and collects the reward and later the gang will break him out of jail.However the Range Rider is suspicious.
Ranch foreman Bentley has murdered the ranch owners because oil has been discovered on the land.The murdered wife has left a message of the crime and Bentley has hired Harmon to find it.
The Range Rider is tricked stage robbers Bert and Sally into helping them escape a posse which is led by sheriff McGraw and which includes Dick. The sheriff is convinced by Sally that Range Rider is the robber despite Dick's protestations.
Bitter over the seizure of her land Spanard Maria Hernandez is running an outlaw smuggling operation into Mexico and posing as a ghost to cover the crime.Unknown to her henchmen Cliff and Bandy are also murdering and robbing people.
Rancher George Foreman , in cahoots with oil company scout Cass ,finds out there is oil on the land of his neighbors, Radford and Evans. He plans to murder both of them and make it look like they killed each other . But Evans survives.