Hoppy, Johnny and Windy are fighting a malicious gang trying to stop a cattle drive from reaching a drought-stricken North.
Acting
William Boyd's impossibly sincere hero energy
Practical Effects
Real cattle, real dust, real stunt falls

Director
Nate Watt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of 66 Hopalong Cassidy films Boyd made; he later bought the rights to his own films and became one of TV's first syndication millionaires.
The 'drought-stricken plains' plot hit different in 1936—America was still deep in the Dust Bowl, making this basically disaster propaganda with horses.