Badlands of Dakota is a 1941 American western film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Robert Stack, Ann Rutherford, Richard Dix and Frances Farmer.

[1] Its plot follows a marshall and his wife who cross paths with Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.

"[2] In the spring of 1876, Bob Holliday, a Deadwood, Dakota Territory saloon owner sends his younger brother, Jim, to Saint Louis to retrieve his intended bride, Anne Grayson.

On the return trip Jim and Anne fall in love and are married at Fort Pierre.

When they arrive at Deadwood, Bob gives Anne a huge parade, not knowing about the marriage.

Villainous local Jack McCall runs a ring of criminals pretending to be Native Americans; Bob, frustrated, surreptitiously joins his gang.