Buck Peters, the owner of the Bar-20 Ranch, tells Hoppy to stop his daughter, Julie, from eloping. Hoppy is too late to stop the wedding, but he arrives in time to see Julie's husband murdered.[1]
The widowed bride hires Hoppy to find her husband's murderer, and save her new home from land grabbers. While protecting Julie's High Sierras' land Hoppy must climb down a rope onto a dangerous log dam.[2]