"A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders."
Joel McCrea
as Ned Bannon
Virginia Mayo
as Ellen
Barry Kelley
as Hardy Bishop
Michael Ansara
as Zarata
Whit Bissell
as Adam Judson
James Dobson
as Dud
George N. Neise
as Mort Harper (as George Neise)
Michael Pate
as Charley
Leo Gordon
as Stark
Ray Teal
as Cap
Phil Phillips
as Will
Adam Kennedy
as Red
Robert Foulk
as Pagones
Jennifer Lea
as Mary
Stephen Carr
as
Leonard P. Geer
William Haade
Mauritz Hugo
George J. Lewis
Tom Lockwood
Tom London
Pierce Lyden
Don McGuire
John Mitchum
Ann Morrison
Guy Prescott
Ralph Reed
Danny Sands
Bob Stratton
Thomas Carr
Director
Joseph Kish
Set Decoration
Emile LaVigne
Makeup Artist
Gertrude Wheeler
Hairstylist
William Austin
Editor
Hans J. Salter
Original Music Composer
Wilfrid M. Cline
Director of Photography
Dave Milton
Art Direction
Walter Mirisch
Producer
Christopher Knopf
Screenplay
Louis L'Amour
Novel
Loren Janes
Stunts
Harry Lewis
Grip
Sid Mintz
Wardrobe Designer