An ambitious drover (Neville Brand) causes a stampede which leaves Favor injured and Rowdy in temporary command.
The drovers recount past misdeeds after recognizing a bounty hunter among them; guests Mark Stevens, Gregory Walcott.
Rowdy quits after an argument with Favor, then becomes a trail boss himself and promises to outrace his old boss to a railhead.
After stopping a lynching, Rowdy agrees to take the intended victim (Robert Middleton) to be tried fairly for murder.
Gil orders an uncooperative drover to track and kill a wild bull that is threatening to stampede the herd.
