is a 1959 American Technicolor VistaVision western film directed by Melvin Frank, starring Jeff Chandler as Luke Darcy and Fess Parker as Cam Bleeker.

Dubois' husband was shot dead by Missouri Redlegs raiders right after the family arrived.

Dubois, telling Bleeker there's a reward out for him and she could turn him in, convinces him to stay at the farm because she can't run it by herself.

Dubois sees that her daughter is still alive, but is enraged about Bleeker's complicity in Darcy's methods, which put the lives of innocents at risk.

What Darcy won't know is that the governor will have filled the train with federal troops, turning it into a Trojan Horse to catch the gang.

So the gang goes ahead and infiltrates Abilene, takes over the town, and waits for the train to arrive.

While they're waiting, Darcy tells Bleeker and Dubois (now on the scene as a willing accomplice) that it's time for them to leave, to go build a life for themselves somewhere else.

Bleeker enters the saloon, now full of gang members, including Darcy, who, informed that the troops are here, orders his men to get out of town.

The film was made by the team of Norman Panama and Melvin Frank who had a deal with Paramount.

[5] Panama and Frank were best known for their comedies and had made a comic Western, Callaway Went Thataway but The Jayhawkers was serious.

This is no time to satirize western myth; people won't stand for the making fun of something sacred.

Actually, why The Jayhawkers is in the outdoor category and has outlaws and guns and horses, it's a western only in that it takes place on the then-frontier of 1859.

He took over only a few towns- but what would've happened if he'd seized Kansas for his empire and the Civil War had allowed him to set up a kingdom in the West?

[6]Panama and Frank subjected the script to analysis by a psychological consulting firm.