Western fans will notice that this movie offers a unique slant on the old "cattlemen-vs.-sheepherders" story. In this film the cattlemen are willing to live peacefully with the sheepherders, but the boss of the big sheep ranch is a ruthless man willing to kill his own henchmen when they fail to help him drive away the cattle ranchers. The credit for this wonderful reversal in a typical western story goes to screenwriter Ed Earl Repp, who worked from 1944-57, a 13-year career that included contributions to 49 westerns.
This is the 42nd of Tim Holt's 54 western films from 1938-52. Having co-starred in 1938 in The Renegade Ranger (1938) at the tender age of 19 with fellow western B movie legend George O'Brien, Holt spent the next 14 years playing likable western heroes.