Produced by Regal Pictures in Canada, where Newfield was shooting his Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans TV series, it was distributed by 20th Century Fox and opened in August 1958.

When food supplies to the Union forces from the Midwest are interrupted by an Indian uprising, Abraham Lincoln sends Capt.

Dan and the local Indian agent, Jeff Baxter, want to exterminate the Sioux so that they can take over their lands to sell it to settlers.

Huston arrives at the fort just in time to stop Running Bear, a Sioux, from being tortured by Col.

Haggerty draws the poison out of Running Bear's wound, and the group continues on to Little Crow's camp.

Huston gets Little Crow to agree to stop the attacks, with a promise to bring the two white men to justice.

Carver leads a troop to plunder a Sioux village in retaliation for a fight at the local trading post during which two Indians and three white men, including Baxter's brother, had been killed.

Worried that the soldiers under Huston's command might take matters into their own hands and turn them over to the Indians, Baxter and Carver escape from the fort.

[11][12] Motion Picture Daily gave the film a mediocre review, calling the cast "spirited", with acknowledging the superior performance of Bennett.

They did not give Newfield's direction either a positive or negative review, instead saying, "...he strives mightily to incorporate as much vital entertainment values as attainable.