Dan Poore

During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Unable to expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead.

Following the Civil War, brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas, where ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being held for a murder, he's rescued from a lynch mob by Neil, now the Marshal, but they have an inevitable falling-out.

A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.

A veteran rodeo rider takes on a young apprentice in order to 'teach him the ropes', and winds up competing against him.