Recognizing that Maj. Robert Parrish (Dale Robertson) has a history of making peace with Native American tribes, President Ulysses S. Grant (John Hamilton) sends him to iron out a land dispute with Chief Sitting Bull (J. Carrol Naish). Though negotiations seem to be going well, Parrish can't stop the deadly Battle of Little Big Horn. Many die, but when he helps Sitting Bull survive, Parrish is charged with crimes against the government, and he will be executed unless Grant steps in.
City slicker Ann (Phyllis Planchard) and her little brother Tom (Steve Drake) leave Chicago and buy a ranch out West, and Ann struggles to run things. She meets Larson (Bob Duncan), a crooked local saloon keeper who woos her, but he also wants her land so he can get to the silver that's located on it. As part of his effort to grab all the land he can, Larson kills the town sheriff and assumes his position, alarming good-guy cowboy Eddie Dean (Eddie Dean), who swoops in and tries to rescue Ann.
A stagecoach operator in the untamed territories of the American Southwest, Margie Rodgers (Helen Mowery) becomes a target for bandits when she starts hauling gold. Eddie Dean (Eddie Dean) and Soapy Jones (Roscoe Ates), a pair of justice-minded cowboys, stumble across an attempt to rob one of Margie's coaches, and they save her loot from the villains. But, when it becomes clear that the attempted crime was part of a larger conspiracy, Eddie and Soapy must widen their investigation.
In this musical western, Marjorie Brooks (Dale Evans) is the owner and operator of a rodeo that's an antiquated touring company on its last legs. Her business rival, Frank Madden (Richard Powers), offers to combine their operations if the lovely Marjorie will be his bride. Though she initially rebuffs his proposal, a canceled booking tips the scales and forces Marjorie to accept. But rodeo rider Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers) suspects Frank is behind Marjorie's troubles and sets out to investigate.
Cowboys Eddie Dean (Eddie Dean) and Soapy Jones (Roscoe Ates) have come to the end of a tough cattle drive, but, instead of the rancher they were expecting, they're welcomed by his sister, young Terry Lawrence (Shirley Patterson). It seems that Terry's brother and one of his employees were wounded by gun-toting thugs. Eddie and Soapy realize that they'll need to get to the bottom of things, so they devise a clever plan to lure the bad guys back to the scene.
Private detective James Barlow (Randolph Scott) is sent to Indiana to infiltrate the ranks of the four Reno Brothers (Denver Pyle, Forrest Tucker, J. Carrol Naish, Myron Healy), a gang running roughshod over luckless locals. After attracting the Renos' attention with a staged train robbery, Barlow gets in deeper when he strikes up a romance with their sister, Laura (Mala Powers). Gradually, Barlow devises a strategy to set the brothers up for ambush in another train robbery.
Parole officer Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers) visits his kindhearted friend Judge Wiggins (Edward Keane) at his home for rehabilitated ex-convicts. Behind the judge's back, foreman Matt Brunner (George Meeker) has been running a counterfeiting ring with the unwilling help of former prisoner Ricardo Chavez (Russ Vincent). An accident during a lion hunt causes Deputy Sheriff Pat Callahan (Dale Evans) to arrest Roy for murder, while Brunner's henchmen kidnap Chavez's visiting sister (Estelita Rodriguez).
In 1892, legendary Army Capt. Joseph Blocker reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief and his family back to their tribal land. Embarking on a harrowing and perilous journey from Fort Berringer, N.M., to the grasslands of Montana, they soon encounter a young widow whose family was killed on the plains. The travelers must now band together to survive a punishing landscape that's crawling with hostile Comanches and vicious outlaws.
In 1892, legendary Army Capt. Joseph Blocker reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief and his family back to their tribal land. Embarking on a harrowing and perilous journey from Fort Berringer, N.M., to the grasslands of Montana, they soon encounter a young widow whose family was killed on the plains. The travelers must now band together to survive a punishing landscape that's crawling with hostile Comanches and vicious outlaws.