
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.
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.
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.
A U.S. marshal (Wild Bill Elliott) roams gold camps as a gunman to find a gambler (Henry Morgan) who knows more about a federal case.
Phoebe Titus (Jean Arthur) is a tough-as-nails pioneer with dreams of starting a freight service in Tucson, Ariz. Peter Muncie (William Holden), a vagabond passing through Arizona en route to California, takes a romantic interest in Phoebe and coaxes out her softer side. Just as their romance begins to blossom, Peter packs up and moves on. Though charming southerner Jefferson Carteret (Warren William) steps in to lend a hand, he may be plotting in secret to sabotage Phoebe's nascent business.
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.
After their parents are killed by Union soldiers, Jesse James and his brother Frank, along with the rest of their gang, ride into Kansas looking for William Quantrill. Seeking revenge against the Union, Jesse wants to join Quantrill's Raiders, who are plotting to claim Kansas for the Confederacy. The more time Jesse spends with Quantrill, however, the more he realizes that Quantrill isn't a hero fighting for the South, but a murderous madman.
A singing-cowboy congressman (Roy Rogers) goes to Washington to save ranchers from a power dam.
Gold thieves and the government rile Geronimo, despite a cavalry captain's (George Montgomery) efforts at peace.
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.