The Raiders (1963)

Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad. , against the railroad.

Director: Herschel Daugherty
Cast: Brian Keith, Robert Culp, Judi Meredith, Jim McMullan, Alfred Ryder, Simon Oakland, Ben Cooper, Trevor Bardette, Harry Carey Jr., Richard H. Cutting, Addison Richards, Cliff Osmond, Paul Birch, Richard Deacon, Michael Burns, Rodolfo Acosta, Frank DeKova, Duane Grey, Walter Woolf King, David McMahon



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In this western, an ex-officer for the confederate Army becomes a Texas cattle rancher. He and his fellow ranchers are dismayed when they learn that the coming railroad intends on bypassing their ranches. The rancher then leaves his land to begin fighting the railroad. Meanwhile the railroad executives have hired Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Calamity Jane to defend their decision against the rancher and his guerrilla gang. When the marauders are finally surrounded by the Army and it looks as if they will die, the three western legends suddenly ride in to save them. They then all band together to convince the railroad that the Texas ranchers desperately need their services. ~ ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

After the Civil War, former Confederate Col. John G. McElroy leaves west Texas with six neighboring ranchers to drive their cattle to the nearest railway stockyard at Hays City, Kansas, but they lose their entire stock to a gang of rustling carpetbaggers as they enter the Six Nations Indian lands in Oklahoma territory. This convinces them that they must have an extension of the railroad to their area. They continue on to Hays City to make their demands and are told by the manager of the Kansas and Pacific Railroad, who is behind schedule in building tracks to Pueblo, that the planned routes west will not detour south into Texas.

Impatient, they band together into a group known as The Raiders, attacking only the railroad. Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody are working for the Army under the command of Captain Benton, who is determined to avenge the railroad's losses and those of Calamity Jane, who is shipping equipment west for the railroad construction. Benton plans an ambush and orders the Raiders machine-gunned, but Hickok and Buffalo Bill intervene and take McElroy and his friends into custody. They persuade the Raiders to return to their ranches and then convince the Kansas and Pacific officials to push a line through to Abilene, Kansas.

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