Un jinete de toros herido, cuya carrera en el rodeo está a punto de terminar, acepta robar caballos para un prestamista implacable.
Un jinete de toros herido, cuya carrera en el rodeo está a punto de terminar, acepta robar caballos para un prestamista implacable.

A drifter crossing the Arizona desert routs a band of marauding Apaches and rescues the young survivor of a massacre.

A U.S. tycoon hires an 1880s gunfighter (Jock Mahoney) to find his brother in Mexico.

A marshal (Tony Young) has a shootout with a villain (Dan Duryea) he knows well.

A ranch foreman tries to thwart a crook's attempts to run his employers off their land.
While the Earp brothers may have won the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, they didn't escape unscathed for long. Seeking revenge over their fallen comrades, members of the Clanton gang go after the Earp family, gunning down both Virgil and Morgan Earp. But they don't succeed at getting Wyatt. Now it's his turn to seek revenge. With Doc Holliday by his side, Wyatt forms a posse, and they won't rest until every member of the Clanton gang is dead.
Morgan Hickman is a tough gunslinger with a knack for keeping his cool in tense situations. When he wanders into a town where the local lawman has been killed, he finds callow but eager Ben Owens temporarily acting as sheriff. Soon Ben, who wants to keep his new position, is looking to Morgan for guidance. Though the bounty hunter has his own issues with law enforcement, he admires Ben's enthusiasm and decides to train him to be an effective sheriff.
Dr. Allen Seward (Robert Francis) is the new doctor at a remote Army outpost. His liberal attitudes towards Native Americans become a source of tension between him and his superiors, especially Capt. Peter Blake (Philip Carey), who regards all Native Americans as dangerous and untrustworthy. Seward's insistence on treating several local Kiowa tribespeople for malaria further enrages Blake, who deems Seward a traitor when the Kiowa join forces with the Comanches and attack the fort.
Former Union soldier John Parrish (Glenn Ford) wants to sell his ranch and start a new life by settling down out east. However, the ruthless tactics of Lew Wilkison (Edward G. Robinson), the scheming businessman interested in his property, make Parrish reconsider the move, especially after one of his ranch hands is murdered. Adding to the increasingly tense conflict is Wilkison's wife, Martha (Barbara Stanwyck), who is cheating on her husband with his brother, Cole (Brian Keith).