Wedding to one of the miners goes awry at a drunkenĬelebration, she flees with the two aging lawmen and their And the journey isĬomplicated by the presence of Elsa, a young woman runningĪway from her stern fundamentalist father. The temptation to steal the shipment gets theīetter of Gil during their journey, resulting in a bitter Shipment from a mining camp high in the Sierras to the townīelow.

Before Steve dies, Gil promises him that he will deliver the gold and do what he can for Elsa and Heck, who have become attracted to each other.Īt a traveling sideshow, former lawman Steve JuddĮncounters an old friend, Gil Westrum, another ex-lawmanįallen on hard times. In a blazing shootout, the Hammonds are slain, but Steve also is mortally wounded. Later, Gil slips away but returns when his comrades are attacked by the Hammond brothers. On the way back to the lowlands, Gil and Heck attempt to steal the gold, but Steve outwits them. Instead, she leaves the camp with Steve, Gil, and Heck, who have collected the gold for transport. When they arrive, she marries Billy but a brawl starts immediately after the ceremony, and Elsa refuses to stay with her husband and his drunken brothers. Elsa is running away to join her boyfriend, Billy Hammond, at the mining camp. En route to the mining camp the three men are joined by Elsa Knudsen, the rebellious daughter of a religious zealot. Secretly, Gil and Heck plan to steal the gold deposits, with or without Steve's help. Assisting him are Gil Westrum, another forgotten lawman reduced to earning his living as a carnival sharpshooter, and Heck Longtree, an adventurous young drifter. His days of glory as a legendary lawman have passed, and aging Steve Judd accepts the job of transporting gold from a remote mining camp in the Sierras to a smalltown bank.

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