The day after a bank robbery, Cheyenne runs into Samantha Crawford. She offers Cheyenne $300 if he meets her later. After finding her, she tells him two men want to kill her and she needs him to hold them for the sheriff arriving on the stage in the morning. He does but there is no sheriff and the men have a different story about her conning them. He realises she's a con woman, bilking the men out of their mine.
Cheyenne tracks her to a cattle drive to collect the $300. Seeing her situation, Cheyenne offers to be trail boss for one dollar per head, but her partners refuse so he joins as a hand at $30 per month but it will cost them if they find they need his skill. Along the way, they are also joined by a padre who says his goal is to resurrect missions as well as the souls of men.
A fight breaks out between Lew and Jamie Dawson over Sam, and the next day, Jamie is found stabbed with everyone to suspect but no one to blame. Soon another partner is stabbed. As suspicion grows everyone wonders will they make it to Kansas and who will be next? Obviously someone is trying to cut the partnership down to size, hence get a bigger cut of the pie ...
The murderer in the midst element separates this from being an ordinary cattle drive yarn - gave it an Agatha Christie feel, with two men getting stabbed at night. Of course, we think it's because someone wants to whittle the partnership down, but that isn't the case. Loved how Cheyenne figures out who the killer is. Diana Brewster is beautiful as the con lady who has Cheyenne chasing after her and Myron Healey has designs for her.