Travelers from Kansas City, they admit they are inexperienced at frontier life and ask Stride to ride with them as they head south to the border town of Flora Vista on their way west to California.

At one point they are stopped by a US Army detail, whose commanding officer tells them to go back, as Chiricahua Apache have been spotted in the area and he cannot guarantee their safety.

As they all spend the night at the station, Masters tells the Greers that Stride was once the sheriff of Silver Springs, and his wife was killed during the robbery of the Wells Fargo freight office.

Masters and Clete reach Flora Vista ahead of the wagon, and they meet with the Wells Fargo bandits waiting for delivery of their gold.

Masters tells their leader, Payte Bodeen, that Stride is heading in their direction to kill all of them and avenge his wife's death.

Stride regains consciousness and overhears Greer admitting to his wife that he was paid $500 to deliver the Wells Fargo box containing the gold to Flora Vista.

Stride returns the gold to Wells Fargo and tells Annie that he is going to take a job as a deputy sheriff in Silver Springs.

As with their previous collaboration, Bullfighter and the Lady, Wayne, in his role as producer, recut Seven Men From Now without Boetticher's approval, although it has since been restored to the director's original vision.

[4] Seven Men from Now was the first in a seven-film collaboration between Scott, Boetticher, and producer Harry Joe Brown, with five of the films written by Kennedy.

[citation needed] The movie was shot in the Alabama Hills and other locations near Lone Pine, California in the last months of 1955.