The Culpepper Cattle Co.

Young Ben Mockridge (Gary Grimes) wants to be a cowboy, to work on the drives and hone his gun play skills. When trail drive boss Frank Culpepper (Billy Green Bush) is in town, Ben begs him for work and is thrilled to be hired as the cook's assistant, taking on tasks that cause serious trouble. After rustlers stampede the herd, Culpepper tracks them to a box canyon, where they kill the rustlers not hesitating to gun down disarmed men or repeatedly shoot anyone still moving. When Ben stands night watch, he is distracted by a one-eyed man and fails to shoot him, leading to more thefts and culminating in a shootout at a saloon where Ben "redeems" himself by killing the bartender.