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An ageing rancher (John Wayne) is forced to hire eleven schoolboys to help him herd his cattle to market, when his regular hands run off to join a goldrush. Along the way the boys are easy prey for villains, but they soon become hardened killers.SynopsisAfter his cowhands desert him for a nearby gold rush, aging, leather-tough rancher Will Anderson (John Wayne) resorts to hiring 11 schoolboys to help him on a 400-mile cattle run. Setting off with the boys and an eloquent but equally tough black cook (Roscoe Lee Browne), Anderson must get his cattle to their destination while contending with the wilderness and a psychotic, vengeful ex-con (Bruce Dern) who is out to get him...