The Culpepper Cattle Co. or Dust, Sweat and Gunpowder (Australian title) is a 1972 American revisionist Western film produced by Twentieth Century Fox.

It was directed by Dick Richards and starred Billy Green Bush as Frank Culpepper and Gary Grimes as Ben Mockridge.

and also "The boy from Summer of '42 becomes a man on the cattle drive of 1866", which references a similar coming of age film starring Gary Grimes.

[4] Ben Mockridge is a young man proud of his $4 handgun - which he flourishes for a friend he recently wagon-raced against -, and enamored of "cowboyin'".

When they reach a grassy, wet area, Culpepper leaves the cattle to graze, going into town to look for the landowner to pay him.

Ben follows them, to buy food for the cook, but joins them in a bar for a drink, where they prod him into a session with a backroom prostitute, although they merely bounce on the bed, clothed, squeaking the springs.

The landowner, Thornton Pierce, tells Culpepper he should've asked first before letting cattle graze, and demands $200 as down-payment for trespassing.

Not surprisingly, Pierce and thugs show up, claiming "this land is mine", and gives everyone, Green included, an hour to leave.

Culpepper responds that Green need only leave to be safe, which is what he intends to do, as it is less than two weeks to Fort Lewis and selling his cattle.

An angry Ben forces them to bury the four bodies of his friends, then discards his gun and rides off to parts unknown.

People rarely took off any clothing in public (there is a comic moment when the cook is embarrassed to be seen with his shirt off), and the idea of an "all-over" tan would have been absurd, if not incomprehensible.

[6] The opening title sequence mixes genuine period photographs with sepia-tinted posed images of the cast members.

This Arizona scenery is 350 miles off-course of a probable route that would run between west Texas and southwest Colorado.

The scenery surrounding the Eaves Movie Ranch (outside Santa Fe, NM) is typical of the landscape and vegetation that would have been common along the fictional route.

The cowboys' departure scene bringing the herd is a clear tribute to Howard Hawks' Red River.