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In need of more hands to help get the herd through a dangerous plateau, Gil goes to the nearest town but may not be too happy with the pickins. To top it off he hires an "educated" man who may be hiding something worse than any chubasco.

The herd must pass through a high pass and chubasco (high winds) so Favor picks up extra hands before he starts the push. The men are anything but trustworthy and loyal. That night an educated man Tom Bryan comes into camp driving a wagon looking for a job. Favor realizes he has no experience but decides he can use the man's wagon to haul the extra bedrolls of the new drovers. The next day in the daylight Rowdy sees Tom and instantly starts a fight with him. Favor breaks it up and eventually is told Tom was a prisoner in the war who "cooperated" with their captors. Jefferson Devereaux rides into camp asking to search it looking for his wife and the man who ran off with her but Favor refuses to let him. Later, when Rowdy finds a bridal veil, Favor learns Tom has Sally Devereaux with him. She tells Favor Devereaux paid her foster parents for her hand but she and Tom had planned to marry when she was of legal age. Devereaux returns to tell Favor if Sally and Tom are not turned over, his 40 men will take them. Sally shoots Jefferson in the arm. Later, the new hands want to turn Sally and Tom out but Favor stops them as Pete returns to tell him Devereaux has the pass guarded. Favor and some men attack Devereaux's men as Tom stands with a noose on him. When Sally shows her love is for Tom, Devereaux releases her and Tom.—Anonymous

Favor's problems come in quadruplets this time: (1) he has to take the herd over a dangerous plateau before a violent windstorm (the Chubasco) arrives, (2) he is short-handed of drovers so he must hire riffraff in the nearby town, (3) one of the riffraff plans to steal the trail-dive's bankroll, and (4) one of the new drovers (John Ericson) comes with a needed wagon that has an unexpected passenger -- a woman fleeing the arranged marriage to the local land baron (George Brent), who has twice the horsemen Favor has and is determined to retake his bride by force to salve his pride and to eventually bear him a child. Additionally Brent is determined to hang Ericson, the woman's lover. Rowdy has a violent hatred of Ericson from the time they were in Yankee prison together during the Civil War. Despite all these threats, Favor is determined not to hand over the couple.—chipe