Tumbleweed is a 1953 American Western film directed by Nathan Juran and starring Audie Murphy, Lori Nelson, and Chill Wills.
The film is based on the story "Three Were Renegades" by Kenneth Perkins, originally published in the December 1938 issue of Blue Book.
Harvey realizes their only chance of survival is if he can negotiate a truce with Tigre's father, Chief Aguila (Ralph Moody).
He goes to town and discovers the people on the wagon train were massacred, except for two sisters who Harvey insisted hide in the caves.
[2] Harvey escapes on a Cayuse horse named Tumbleweed that he borrows from Nick Buckley (Roy Roberts), and tries to prove his innocence.