Wild Bill Hickok (Bill Elliott) and his pal (Dub Taylor) take a wagon train through Indian country.
Wild Bill Hickok (Bill Elliott) and his pal (Dub Taylor) take a wagon train through Indian country.
A gang of gold-hunting outlaws, headed by the ruthless Left Eye Watkins (Bobby Brown), takes over the peaceful town of Flatridge, tearing the sleepy outpost to shreds as they search for riches. They murder a can-can girl, who is the sister of Rachel (Monica Calhoun), the onetime leader of a notorious all-girl gang. Rachel then rounds up her four old associates, and they seek revenge for her sister. Using teamwork and a sassy attitude, Rachel's gang goes up against Watkins' tough crew.
Jess Collins, a poor miner, helps Sonny chase off two men he calls claim jumpers. When he arrives in the nearby town, he learns Sonny is no good and everyone in town is against him.
Lance Poole (Robert Taylor) is a Native American who left his tribal homelands to fight for the Union in the Civil War. Despite earning the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic duties in the line of fire, when he returns home he's still faced with hatred and racism from the white community that neighbors his village. Unable to own property because he's not considered a citizen of the United States, he fights a lawyer's (Louis Calhern) attempts to take over his tribe's hard-earned land.
John Mason (John Wayne) suffers a cruel homecoming when he witnesses his father's murder as he rides into town. Incensed, he chases after the killers, but he suffers a gunshot wound that cuts his pursuit short. Alice Gordon (Marion Burns) sees to his injury, and Mason is taken by her kindness and beauty. But things turn sour when her beau, Ben (Reed Howes), becomes jealous. After Mason discovers the men who killed his father, his plan for a duel is sabotaged by Ben, who has been manipulated.
Setting off on a journey to the west in the 1830s, the Prescott family run into a man named Linus (James Stewart), who helps them fight off a pack of thieves. Linus then marries daughter Eve Prescott (Carroll Baker), and 30 years later goes off to fight in the Civil War with their son, with bloody results. Eve's sister, Lily (Debbie Reynolds), heads further west and has adventures with a professional gambler (Gregory Peck), stretching all the way to San Francisco and into the 1880s.
An Old West gunfighter (Hal Holbrook) turns a young farmer (Jeff Osterhage) into a justice fighter with a special gun.
Corrupt Wisconsin lumberman Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas) travels to Northern California at the dawn of the 20th century in order to gain control of a tract of redwood forest. Fallon's underhanded tactics stir resentment from everyone, including settler Elder Bixby (Charles Meredith) ; his beautiful daughter, Alicia (Eve Miller) ; Fallon's fair-minded employee, Yukon Burns (Edgar Buchanan) ; and his right-hand man, Frenchy LeCroix (John Archer) -- and his cheating ways create unlikely bedfellows.
Noble cowboy the Durango Kid (Charles Starrett) gets snared in a vicious feud between two warring stagecoach operations. One of the two has been recently willed to spitfire Mary Halliday (Carole Mathews), whose father the Kid suspects was murdered by a business rival. With the help of his trusted friends Tex Harding (Tex Harding) and Cannonball (Dub Taylor), the Kid hopes to uncover the truth while hiding the investigation from the strident Miss Halliday.