Nevada

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.

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.

When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.

อดีตนักโทษคนหนึ่งต้องการแก้แค้นชายผู้ส่งเขาเข้าคุกโดยวางแผนปล้นรถม้าโดยสารของชายผู้นั้นซึ่งกำลังขนทองคำ เขาจึงขอความช่วยเหลือจากหุ้นส่วนที่อาจทำงานให้กับศัตรูของเขา

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.

Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.

เรื่องราวของหนังดำเนินขึ้นระหว่างปี 1839 – 1889 แบ่งออกเป็น 5 ตอน นำเสนอผ่าน 4 รุ่นของครอบครัว Prescotts นำโดยพ่อ Zebulon (รับบทโดย Karl Malden) พาครอบครัวออกเดินทางล่องเรือจาก New York ผ่านคลองขุด Erie Canal มุ่งหน้าสู่ดินแดนตะวันตก

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)

Two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St. Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians. They soon discover that there is much more than the elements to contend with.