Jim Williams is a skilled saddle bronc rider in the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association, a man who knows how to score high and win money. After four years in the U.S. Marines, too much of it spent in Afghanistan, he is very content with his life following the PRCA circuit - until he rides Slash a mean-minded gray horse that ends up killing himself at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo, and nearly taking Williams with him into the great beyond. Now what? Are his rodeo days over? He needs time to heal and decide what to do with his life, and the owner of the Arrow Ranch in the Panhandle of Texas offers Jim a foreman job which he accepts. That's a good place to heal up and decide whether he'll go back to the rodeo circuit or not. Then Jim meets a girl named Ruth which makes his life happier, reminding him of the lovely Ruth in the Bible.Then the Arrow Ranch changes hands and Williams in not happy with the new owners. He'll train his replacement, but once that's done he figures to head out to the pretty Idaho country he's seen in his travels. Of course, before all of that can happen Jim is caught up in foiling a bank robbery, using his Marine sniper skills to take down the holdup man, and rescue his hostage.