Nogales. Kit Willer saves the noble lady Manuela Montoya from a herd of crazed cattle… and love blossoms between the two! But the girl’s stern father, the hidalgo don Carlos, does not look favourably on the half-breed Kit and explains to Tex (who had intervened as a concerned parent) that he prefers the rich landowner don Pedro Cortez. Manuela won’t hear of it, and so the jealous suitor, rejected because of Piccolo Falco, has her kidnapped by a pack of desperados: by pretending to rescue her, Cortez thinks he’ll regain the young girl’s favor!