A band of Cheyenne attack and the disparate group is trapped without water in the desert, and must learn to work together to fight off their common enemy. The only survivors turn out to be the two bad apples, Amy and Banner. But they both go through a change of heart and are redeemed by this experience. Amy feels guilty she sent the senator to his death by having the pompous bore back up his beliefs that the Indians were “misunderstood” and could live in peace if we could only powwow with them. Banner, falling in love with Amy and tiring of being a gunslinger, makes a deathbed promise to Carter that he will restore his good name and return the robbery money. God is called into the story line intervening with a miraculous storm in the midst of a clear blue sky, that gives the dying of thirst survivors water. Banner is such a changed man that he can’t kill with his bare hands the last of the Indians that attacks, and is rewarded for this good deed by the Indian returning with two horses for the survivors.

Though the message film seems simplistic and its good intentions can be argued as maintained only by stacking the deck for its PC solution, nevertheless the characters were richly worked out making the routine story more invigorating than the usual oater.