Santa Fe: Britt Canfield (Randolph Scott), is the eldest of four brothers. Their family's Virginia plantation has been stolen by carpetbaggers. With no choice but to start over, Britt accepts a position to help build the Yankee-funded Santa Fe railroad, where the straight-shooting ex-Confederate takes on superstitious Indians, crooked gamblers, vengeful war widows, and most dangerous of all, his three brothers, vicious Yankee haters who'll stop at nothing to prevent the completion of the Santa Fe. Even if it meanskilling their own brother.

The Stranger Wore A Gun: A former spy moves to Arizona to join a gold robbery, but when he gets there decides that it's not for him and tries to change his life.

Hangman's Knot: Scott commands a raiding party of Confederate cavalry at the end of the Civil War. After robbing a Yankee gold shipment, they are told by a dying Union soldier that the war has been over for a month. Now they face criminal prosecution for acts committed while they thought the war was on.

Man in the Saddle: A wounded rancher (Randolph Scott) hides with a schoolmarm (Ellen Drew) after his ex-girlfriend's husband (Alexander Knox) runs him out of town.

The Nevadan: U.S. marshal Andrew Barkeley goes undercover in a federal pen to get a line on $250,000 in stolen money. Barkeley arranges for chief suspect Tom Tanner to escape from jail, the better to trail Tanner to the hiding place for the loot. Complicating matters is avaricious rancher Edward Galt, who also covets the stolen cash.

The Desperadoes: When Cheyenne Rogers, a hunted gunman, rides into Red Valley, he meets and falls in love with Allison MacLeod. Trying to go straight, Cheyenne is enmeshed in a web of intrigue and killing that leads him to the brink of a lynching. Escaping with Sheriff Upton's help, he returns to Red Valley long enough to learn about the underhanded dealings of some of the town's supposedly respectable citizens. With the sheriff jailed for his part in Cheyenne's escape, the gunman returns amid the thunderings of a wild horse stampede to free him and clean up the lawlessness of Red Valley.