A wounded cowboy (Tim McCoy) catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.
A wounded cowboy (Tim McCoy) catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.
Lutie Cameron (Katharine Hepburn) arrives in New Mexico, having married cattleman James Brewton (Spencer Tracy) after a short courtship. She finds that her husband is considered a tyrant by locals for jealously guarding his million acres of land, the "Sea of Grass," against homesteaders. Lutie is unfaithful to him with his enemy, liberal lawyer Brice Chamberlain (Melvyn Douglas), and conceives a son. When James finds out, he orders her to leave -- without her two children.
In the 1890s Kansas, cowboy Don Carver, a drifter by nature, meets and falls in love with Molly Lassiter after accidentally lassoing her, literally, into a saloon. Deciding to change his ways, Carver intends to join the Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893, stake his land and settle down with his new love. However, before the start of the homesteading race, Carver is arrested, and his hopes of beginning anew are jeopardized.
Three escaped convicts return to collect the money that the brother of one of them has already spent.
Dick Bailey (Richard Arlen) has been on a drunken bender since his pal, a young rancher, was murdered. Bailey suspects the greedy Stack (Fred Kohler) killed his friend in a scheme to gain control of his ranch. But then the dead man's sister (Mary Brian) comes to town, expecting to inherit the ranch. Bailey tries to woo her, but his drunkenness revolts her, and Stack tries to claim the ranch on the basis of unpaid taxes. Bailey must sober up to fight off the vicious Stack and win the girl.
A wandering cowpoke is shocked when the inhabitants of a Western community treat him like a long-lost friend.
There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman (John McIntire) wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt (Robert Taylor) to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.
A tungsten miner (Bill Boyd) loves his father's rival's daughter (Helen Twelvetrees) and fights off her other suitor (Clark Gable).
A worthless gold mine leads the Durango Kid and a newspaperman on a trail marked by suspicion and deceit.