In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.

In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.

In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.

In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines.