The Lone Hand is a 1953 American Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale and Alex Nicol.

In town, young Josh meets a boy named Daniel Skaggs who has an older sister, Sarah Jane.

One day when Sarah Jane brings muffins and they get acquainted, she joins Zack and Josh on a visit to George Hadley's horse farm.

Hadley strongly urges Zack to join the "Regulators," who try to maintain law and order the area with the sheriff dead.

His original plan was to leave Timberline once his work was done, but Zack elects to keep the farm and make a family with Josh, Daniel and Sarah Jane.