June, 1871. Cattleman Brite takes on Reddie as horse wrangler. Cattle drive. Chisholm Trail. Foreman Joe spanks Reddie, ignorant she's a girl of 16. Wallen murdered her dad. He and Hite demand to take her. Joe outguns Hite. Brite adopts Reddie. Drovers witness his will, all to her. Hite & co. take part of the herd. 20 Comanche attack emigrant wagons. Two survive: John Hardy and daughter Ann. Mose reports Hite took the cattle while the hands fought Comanche. Tex and the boys foil the villains. Hite escapes. Reddie loves Tex. Trail's end in Dodge. Hite dies drawing on Tex. Lovebirds will wed.; Ex-Cavalry Sergeant James C. Cooney returns to Mineral Creek where he spotted silver during a cavalry detail in the 1870s. A rich strike. Word leaks. Miners stampede. Mining camp of Mogollon Springs. Apaches plan a massacre. Folks gather at settler Roberts' cabin. Cooney and Chick arrive. Apache attack is 1 or 2 days off. Agnes, a teen, sees Cooney and Chick leave to get food for the siege. Apaches cut them down. The siege ends when cavalry arrive.