When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.

• Sanford Productions (III)
• Warner Bros. Pictures
• John Wayne
• Roscoe Lee Browne
• Bruce Dern
• Colleen Dewhurst
• Alfred Barker Jr.
• Nicolas Beauvy
• Steve Benedict
• Robert Carradine