The Story:
Lieutenant Colonel Kirby York commands a lonely cavalry post on the Texas border training raw recruits to fight marauding Apaches until his estranged son Trooper Jefferson York arrives as a recruit after flunking out of West Point forcing Kirby to apply harsh discipline without favoritism.
The situation intensifies when estranged wife Kathleen arrives to buy Jefferson out of enlistment reopening Civil War wounds from Kirby burning her plantation yet the Apache threat escalates with a medicine man’s escape leading to raids and secret orders to cross into Mexico.
With children kidnapped after an ambush Kirby launches a daring unauthorized rescue across the Rio Grande where Jefferson shields the young ones earning his father’s respect as the family heals amid fierce battle and ultimate victory.
