Three outlaws try to get Johnny Yuma to join them. When he refuses, they become bitter enemies. Yuma goes to a ranch where he finds a teen girl who is badly treated by her uncle and aunt. The outlaws happen upon the ranch and set the rest of the story in motion.; Johnny rescues an Apache boy from bullying cowboys, but doesn't know what to do with the boy.; Overview of Quantrill's Raiders, a band of Confederate guerrillas, some of whom later became an outlaw gang.; How the railroads provided meat to their track-laying crews in the Old West.