
After a gang of men unsuccessfully attempts to lynch him for a cattle rustling crime he did not commit, Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is saved by marshal Dave Bliss (Ben Johnson) and judge Adam Fenton (Pat Hingle). The lawmen offer him a job as a federal marshal with the caveat that he not abuse his new power to seek revenge against his tormentors. But, when Cooper finds that some of the men who attacked him are involved in another set of crimes, he fights to bring them to justice.
After a gang of men unsuccessfully attempts to lynch him for a cattle rustling crime he did not commit, Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is saved by marshal Dave Bliss (Ben Johnson) and judge Adam Fenton (Pat Hingle). The lawmen offer him a job as a federal marshal with the caveat that he not abuse his new power to seek revenge against his tormentors. But, when Cooper finds that some of the men who attacked him are involved in another set of crimes, he fights to bring them to justice.
An embittered Indian scout attempts to escort a homesteader's wife and her son back to safety after her cowardly husband deserts her during an Apache attack. When she refuses to go, the scout stays on to help for a while and, over time, forms a strong bond with both her and her son.
During a drunken spree in the small Wild West town of Bannock, one of a half-dozen workers from a nearby ranch accidentally shoots an innocent man. Bannock's marshal, a righteous man named Jered Maddox (Burt Lancaster), comes to the larger town of Sabbath bearing the dead body of one of the revelers and demands the surrender of the remaining five from sheriff Cotton Ryan (Robert Ryan) and ranch owner Vincent Bronson (Lee J. Cobb), starting a confrontation that threatens to engulf them all.
A man (Jack Randall) raised by Indians fights his long-lost brother raised by the outlaws who killed their parents.
A widow (Joan O'Brien) crosses the desert with a drifter (Audie Murphy) and the gunman (Dan Duryea) who killed her husband.
Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and sidekick Lucky (Russell Hayden) help a railroad man (Matt Moore) thwart a land baron.
Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and pals (George Hayes, Russell Hayden) help a widow save her herd from rustlers.
A cowgirl vigilante (Wanda Hendrix) proves to a deputy (Lon McCallister) that the sheriff (Preston Foster) is an outlaw.
A cowboy (Tim Holt) and his Irish-Mexican sidekick (Richard Martin) expose a scheme to divert reservation food.