Wagon Train (1940)

In his first starring Western for RKO young Tim Holt must not only carry on his fathers freight business but also hunt down his murderer A certain Matt Gardner wants to corner the freight business to Pecos and persuades young Zack Sibleys wagon master to switch sides Zack also earns the enmity of Gardners son Coe who takes umbrage to the youngsters flirtation with pretty Helen Lee It all comes to a head during a food shortage in Pecos a neardisaster that persuades the wagon master to switch sides once again When the dust settles Zack learns that old man Gardner is actually Carl Anderson the man who murdered his father