The Cowboys (1972)
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them. based on novel or book, montana, ranch, beef, cattle drive, underage drinking, gun battle, cattle, schoolboy, cattleman, cattle rustling, kids on their own, cattle stampede
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