The heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a reporter, a gangster…and a masked fiend known as The Iron Claw.

A crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend Hoppy to take the job of Marshall in a town rife with vice and murder directed at helpless miners.

Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a dam, who protects her.