Jim Reed, an outlaw, holds up a stagecoach, but is seen by a horseman, who hastily rides to the sheriff's office and shortly after, the sheriff and posse are in pursuit. Finding the trail of the desperado they follow him through a dense woods on the mountainside before he is aware that he is being pursued. He easily eludes them and comes across a miner's hut.
When borderlines were not limits for pioneers, the far north of Brazil became the destination for men and women seeking to build their lives, facing new challenges, new dreams. While for some, conquest came through hard and honest work, others achieved it through brute force and violence.
"Alkali" Ike, with a luxuriant growth of beard that he has carefully fostered, determines to see the city for the first time. He arrives, and not being a good dodger, is knocked insensible by the first automobile he encounters. His disfigured face is shaven by a doctor, who adorns it with several large strips of plaster, gives him some new clothes and turns him loose. Arriving back in his home town he meets his wife's sister, attempts to embrace her and she, not recognizing his shaven face, summons the aid of a group of punchers who immediately put Alkali through a course of rough treatment, including a ducking in the watering trough, and finally land him in the town jail.
In Post-Civil War America, two Confederate officers turned wanted bandits seek help from a Union soldier to dig up a coffin full of gold in hopes of changing their collective fates.
Wyoming, 1890. A drunken cowboy finds himself tied to a tree in the middle of nowhere with no recollection of how he got there. His kidnapper, another cowboy, tries to get him to remember the events that lead up to it as the two tell stories contradict each other. Only one is telling the truth.
A town in Arizona gave all their horses to General Custer, with the promise that they would get their horses back or be paid. The Mayor keeps it a secret about what happened to Custer, the horses, and the money. Carson uncovers the truth.