A young Indian brave named Little Hawk (Don Reynolds) runs across the countryside, hoping to run into the Durango Kid.  Instead, he runs into Steve Reynolds (Charles Starrett), who listens as Little Hawk explains that the Indians and the white men are about to go to war.  Steve promises to deliver the message to Durango.  That will be easy for Steve because he is Durango!

White bandits are disguising themselves as Native Americans and attacking stagecoaches.  The local townspeople are getting riled up.  Meanwhile, businessmen Jim Haverly (Monte Blu) is running a trading post and secretly selling weapons to the Indians.  Jim is hoping to profit from the upcoming war.  Jim is also the uncle to Little Hawk’s best friend, Billy (Tommy Ivo).  When Durango and his sidekick Smiley Burnette show up, they team up with Billy and Little Hawk and try to stop the war before it happens.

This is one of the many B-westerns that featured Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid.  The Durango Kid was always an agent of the federal government but he pretended to be an outlaw to make it easier for him to get information.  Sometimes, it really didn’t make sense for Steve to pretend to be the Durango Kid, like in this movie.  I guess no one wanted to give up the gimmick, just like no one wanted to give up Smiley Burnette’s musical comedy.

This one has all of the horse-riding and gun-shooting that fans of the genre would expect from a Charles Starrett western.  It also has a lot of stock footage that appeared in a countless number of other B-westerns.  Starrett is a convincing cowboy and Monte Blue is a good villain, as always.  The child actors can sometimes be difficult to tolerate but I imagine the kids in the audience preferred watching them to sitting through the romantic subplots that these films usually had.  Fans of the gerne will enjoy the film, if just on a nostalgic level.  Those who are not into westerns will still not be into them after watching.