Jed Cooper er uskyldig, da ni selvtægtsmænd vil lynche ham for kvægtyveri og mord. Men han overlever mirakuløst, og først da hans uskyld er slået fast, og han har loven på sin side, drager han ud for at tage en blodig hævn over kaptajn Wilson og hans otte hjælpere.
I 1939 arver den adelige englænder Sarah en ranch i Australien. Mere af nød end af lyst slår den porcelænsfine overklassekvinde sig sammen med den upolerede kvægdriver Drover. Hvis ranchen skal reddes fra en brutal kvægbaron, skal kvæget nemlig bringes til havnebyen Darwin, og snart begiver det umage par sig afsted for at drive de 2.000 kreaturer ud på den lange og barske tur gennem ødemarken.
John Wayne havde sloges med sine bare næver, skudt desperadoer, kæmpet junglekrige og været pilot. Men The Cowboys gav ham en af hans saftigeste roller som en læderhals af en rancher, der bliver svigtet af sine faste mænd, og derfor hyrer 11 grønne skoledrenge til at drive kvæg over 400 modbydelige mil. Da støvet havde lagt sig, havde John Wayne spillet en af sine bedste film.
På jagt efter ‘Det forsvundne smil’ drager tre venner, der alle bor i storbyen og alle befinder sig i den sureste midtvejskrise, af sted på to ugers ferietur som kvægdrivere. Det bliver ikke kedeligt!
Efter den amerikanske borgerkrig starter Thomas Dunson en kvæg-farm, med hjælp fra sin trofaste cowboy Groot og hans unge protoge Matthew, en forældreløs dreng som Dunson har taget til sig. Sammen må de lede kvæget fra Texas til Missouri, hvor priserne er højere, men temperamenterne koger snart over hos den vredladne gamle mand og den stædige dreng, over den lange rejse.
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.
The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and the lad must start learning the hard lessons of working in a team if he wants to make it to San Diego.
Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy and his buddy get mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked cattle dealer.
A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country.
Remake of the 1948 John Wayne feature about a man who rebels against his tyrannical guardian during a crucial cattle drive.
A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive.
Shadrach Jones, ex-Texas State Policeman, has the ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the money with which he was to buy a ranch for the two of them. At the saloon-hotel run by Adelaide, Shadrach is convinced that one of the cowhands on the Captain McKellar cattle drive to Montana is his man. He takes the job of trail-herd boss to find the killer. McKellar preaches to Jones that he should forget revenge and let the law of retribution take care of the killer. Shadrach's hard driving of the men and his hunt for the killer makes him bitterly hated, and his retribution quest ends in a manner he did not anticipated.
Former bandit Jim Dancer becomes marshal of a Kansas town and cleans up the criminal element - with the help of his old pal, Jesse James.
After the Civil War, a cowboy who's a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico now occupied by the French...
Story concerns the efforts of Buffalo Bill to protect the Indian's land from a gang who want to get the gold buried there. The outlaws disguise themselves as Indians and raid and plunder the settlers in order to blame the tribe.
A cowpoke buys Billy the Kid's horse and, upon riding it, becomes an incorrigible outlaw himself.
A cowboy sets out to help a pretty young girl who is about to lose her ranch when crooks plan to foreclose on it because she doesn't have enough money to make her mortgage payment. He puts together a cattle drive in order to sell the herd to raise the money to pay off the note, but when the crooks hear about this, they make plans to stampede the herd along the way.