The Rebel

Yuma is riding through brush country when he is stopped by a fugitive who forces him to trade horses.

Rancher Bull Hollingsworth commissions Yuma to make a man out of his sheltered son, Seldon.

General Grant pays a post-war visit to the South, and Johnny tells young Jimmy the story of Lee's surrender.

Johnny stops by a farmhouse owned by a young widow. He learns she is being persecuted by a self-righteous neighbor who has learned she used to be dance hall girl.

Juanita, the widow of a Confederate general, asks Yuma to go to Mexico to bring back a sword which belonged her husband.

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Johnny Yuma comes to town for supplies and discovers that he is the victim of a conspiracy—no one will sell to him. He will starve unless he can break the boycott.

The editor of the newspaper in a frontier town tells Johnny that the town is trying a new approach to law and order. They are going to attempt to make sure that everyone in the town is unarmed.

A corrupt sheriff arrests Johnny on a charge of vagrancy and he ends up with a gang of slave laborers.

Johnny Yuma fulfills a promise made to a dying Union soldier. He rides into Lassiter City to return a keepsake medal to the boy's family. The mother proudly receives the medal and then asks Yuma to stay on as a cowhand.

Johnny is ambushed by three young boys. The boys proceed to tell him about their plans to rob the bank.

Sime Trask goads Johnny into a gunfight and Johnny is forced to kill him. Johnny and the sheriff go to try and explain Trask's death to his widow.

Johnny is talked into taking a temporary job as a schoolmaster. But one of his students is giving him a hard time because his sweetheart has a crush on Johnny.

Johnny comes across a family of squatters in desperate need of help. The nearby townspeople think that the squatters have diphtheria.

Johnny is beaten up by two ex-Union soldiers. They want to know where the gold cache worth two million dollars is but Johnny doesn't know anything about it.

Johnny finds a strange man at an abandoned Army post. The man is babbling like a crazy man. He tells Johnny he acts crazy to keep the Indians from killing him. Suddenly the Indians reappear.

Will Randall is fleeing from a posse and attempts to steal Johnny's horse. Johnny catches him and turns him over to the posse. Later, Randall's daughter tells him that her father is being framed.

Johnny return home after the war to find his father is dead and the town has been taken over by outlaws.