La ballade de Buster Scruggs est un western d'anthologie en six volets mettant en scène les légendes du Far West vues par les incomparables réalisateurs et scénaristes Joel et Ethan Coen. Chaque chapitre est consacré à une histoire différente de l'Ouest américain.
When asked about the Ghost Riders song he sings, Gene Autry tells this legend: Gene is about to resign as an investigator for the county attorney and go into the cattle business with his pal Chuckawalla Jones but decides instead to help Anne Lawson clear her father, rancher Ralph Lawson, of a false murder charge. He looks for the three witnesses who can testify that Lawson shot only in self defense in killing a gambler, but the witnesses are terrorized by another gambler, town boss Rock McCleary, who shoots witness Pop Roberts Morgan. Fatally wounded, Pop gives Gene the information needed to clear Lawson, then dies crying the "Ghost Riders" are coming for him. Gene then heads for a showdown with McCleary.
Kincade contrôle la réserve d'eau afin d'obliger les paysans de payer des taxes exhorbitantes pour en utiliser. Agent du gouvernement Saunders décide d'assècher les réserves de Kincade en réouvrant l'ancienne rivière.
Deux vendeurs de friandises travaillant sur des rodéos ont des ennuis avec leur patron. Pour lui échapper, ils montent dans un train roulant vers le Far West. Là-bas, ils se font engager comme cow-boys alors qu'ils ne connaissent rien au métier …
Roy returns home to fine a range feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. When his friend is killed he finds the rifle had a defective pin. He learns the rifle belongs to a ranch hand named Barker and that a third party has caused the feud. When he captures outlaws trying to blow up a dam, he claims Barker was the killer. But Barker has switched rifles and the outlaws now accuse Roy and Roy finds himself in trouble.
Lorsque Roy et Trigger arrive à son ranch, il trouve Cookie a embauché ses parents. Caroline, le seul parent qui n'a pas une forte ressemblance avec Cookie, est le dresseur de chevaux. Bob Roy raconte une bande d'hommes sont la chasse des chevaux de gamme. Roy met un terme à la chasse sur ses terres. Pop décide qu'il ya de l'argent dans l'enlèvement Trigger et exige une rançon de 100.000 $. beau-fils de McFarland, Ted, et son chien Tramp, fuir et se trouve caché dans la grange de Roy. Un piège est réglé pour attraper le ranch ravisseurs.
A cowboy helps a pretty young woman and her father in their fight against land-grabbers who are trying to swindle them out of their cattle ranch.
It's cattlemen versus sheepmen and Trigger Gargan appears to be the leader of the gang causing the trouble. But unknown to Ranger Tex Lawrence, the respected town citizen Barrow is the boss and is tipping off the gang as to the Ranger's activities.
To bring water to their valley, ranchers have raised money to build a dam. When that money is stolen, Allison suggests the ranchers sell their stock to a friend of his thereby getting the money needed to complete the dam. Roy has a clue that Allison was involved in the robbery and is out to get control of the valley. So Roy and the boys try to delay the sale of the stock while they look for proof against Allison.
Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission orphanage.
Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, everything goes to Buck, who is the manager. She does not like Buck, so she makes a deal with the wrong people for cattle and then the outlaws go to the ranch to get the $10,000 from her. But Buck is on the job.
Un bon cow-boy, qui n'a d'autres passions que le chant, affronte un méchant hors-la-loi dans une petite ville qui ne ressemble à aucune autre...
A singing cowboy and his sidekick encounter misunderstandings and rodeo havoc as they try and save a man and daughter from con men.
A cattle buyer, a federal agent and a newswoman snip a railroad plot.
Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.
A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff.
Les méchants complotent pour tromper une jeune fille de l'Est nouvellement arrivée d'un ranch qui appartient à sa pupille infantile. Roy, bien sûr, sauve le ranch pour la fille. Les chansons incluent "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral", "It's a No Good Son of a Gun", "Sandman Lullaby", "Song of the San Joaquin" et "I'm a Cowboy Rockefeller".
Une inondation a acculée les éleveurs à la ruine. Le député Fuller, qui n'a pas avalisé le projet de loi visant à des travaux pour empêcher les débordements de la rivière, en est directement responsable, et Gene Autry décide de se présenter contre lui. Il est élu, mais son projet baptisé "Holloway" est rejeté par le congrès.
Caxton has broken out of prison and Eddie has been sent to bring him in. Caxton is known by the polka dot band on his hat and Eddie has Soapy wear one like it. This gets Soapy arrested as soon as he rides into town but it leads Eddie to Varney and he realizes Varney will lead him to Caxton.
Scanlon is pulling off a land swindle by selling lots in a ghost town claiming the power company is bringing in a line. As a bonus he throws in shares in a worthless gold mine. Gene is on to Scanlon and tries to get him to buy back the deeds by salting the mine with gold. But when a new vein is really discovered Gene has to stop the sales but is trapped in the mine by Scanlon's men.