
Rowdy Yates and Gil Favor lead communal cattle drives.

Gil orders an uncooperative drover to track and kill a wild bull that is threatening to stampede the herd.

A hangman (Burgess Meredith) fears for his life when a judge hires him to execute a popular man (Broderick Crawford).

The drovers agree to protect the hangman (Burgess Meredith) from the condemned man's (Broderick Crawford) two sons.

The drovers find a lost boy, armed with Roman candles, who lies to them about being orphaned in an Indian massacre.