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Ted Daniels (Cameron Mitchell) is a traveling rodeo hand who is attached to very little besides Gallant Bess, the wild horse that he has trained with patience and dedication. When Ted meets Penny (Audrey Long), the beautiful daughter of Doc Gray (Harry Cheshire), he falls in love with her, but circumstances force him to choose between loyalty to his steed and the chance of having a life with Penny. Can he find a way to win back Gallant Bess and get the girl?

Ted Daniels, a ranch hand working for a rodeo, captures a magnificent wild horse that he tames and trains. As Ted is recovering from an accident that happened during a rodeo, the rodeo owner cheats him out of his horse. Ted must decide whether to pursue him and try to recover the horse, or whether to settle down with the doctor's daughter who is nursing him back to health. Written by Snow Leopard

Plot summary

Drifting and down on his luck cowboy Ted Daniels captures a beautiful mustang, names her Bess and teaches her a variety of tricks. Fate turns on him when he rides Bess into town where she causes expensive damage to motor vehicles as Ted drinks in a bar. Ted thinks his luck will change by winning a large prize in a local rodeo, but the unscrupulous carnival owner, who wants Bess to appear in his show, has one of his stooges cover the horns of the steer Ted is to wrestle with slippery oil breaking Teds leg in the process.

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Having no money, Ted sells Bess to the traveling carnival where she is mistreated and forced into performing in their show. As Ted recovers he plans to reunite with Bess.