Yancy Derringer

Yancy wins enough money playing poker to pay for his return home to New Orleans. The losing players decide to rob him of his winnings, but he escapes on a riverboat.

Yancy helps a sea captain who was cheated out of his money in a dive on notorious Gallatin Street.

City administrator Colton entrusts Yancy with an army payroll that is to be taken to Natchez on Yancy's riverboat, the Sultana, but robbers have other plans.

Yancy is relieved to find that a newspaper story about administrator Colton's death is premature, but fears that Colton will be the victim of trickery in an upcoming duel.

An Irish girl visitng New Orleans decides that Yancy is to be her future husband.

After administrator Colton hangs a member of an outlaw gang, the others decide to take revenge on his visiting sister.