The Cowboys

All they wanted was their chance to be men... and he gave it to them.

A coming-of-age Western about a rancher who transforms a group of schoolboys into capable men through a cattle drive, only to face danger from rustlers and the harsh realities of frontier life.

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.