In Tulsa, after a rancher dies during a feud with a major oil company, his daughter, driven by revenge, starts digging for oil herself. The film tells a story about the Tulsa, Oklahoma oil boom of the 1920s and details how obsession with accumulating wealth and power can tend to corrupt moral character. The tale begins with the death of rancher Nelse Lansing, who is killed by an oil well blowout while visiting Tanner Petroleum to report that pollution from Tanner’s oil production has killed some of Lansing’s cattle. Lansing’s daughter, Cherokee, initially in an effort to punish Tanner for her father’s death, acquires drilling rights on her land; she meets Brad Brady, a geologist who wants drilling to be limited in order to minimize oil field depletion and to preserve the area’s grasslands. Jim Redbird is a native American who has long been drawn to Cherokee and upon being persuaded by Brady that cattle …