Old-timer badman Denver Jones once hid $20.000 in stolen funds near Mineral City, and recent clues have given a gang of outlaws a head start in finding it. With Sheriff Blodgett away, Roy turns for help to former policeman Leo Driggs, who had lost his nerve and retired from the force, but whose fourteen-year-old son Petey believes his father can ""lick his weight in wildcats.""