The Beauty Jamison Story

The wagon train stops outside the Jamison ranch. At a Will Jamison grave site Flint and Wooster finds a man stabbed with a note saying "Deliver to Beauty Jamison" who is the surviving daughter of Jamison, aptly named Beauty. Flint just does that, taking the body to the Jamison ranch and learns the dead man was a gunfighter and foreman for Beauty.

Beauty offers Flint the job but he turns her down while running into an old friend from the East Steve Marshall who lost a hand in the war. Beauty is trying to uphold the control her father had but she is too immature to understand how to do it. Steve is in love with her and is trying to work out the problems but Beauty's ego gets in the way.

Flint suggests the ranchers form a Cattlemen's Association which they do but Beauty's new foreman, Jud Bascombe, wants to use force against them. His actions force the ranchers into action and his $20 toll per wagon pushes Flint to confront Jub and Beauty. Flint takes on Jud while Steve has to handle Beauty who has lost control.

Virginia Mayo (sigh) is enough reason to watch this, a real beauty - incidentally, her character here is aptly-named beauty- and her acting is standout as a daughter of a rancher who had held an iron grip on the ranges. She fails to understand that she can't be like her dad and she needs have a softer hand. It's a rather ordinary story, merely passable but good ole Virginia brings it up a few pegs. Robert Horton as Flint, however, comes across a little arrogant and smug, especially when he advises Steve that she should be taught a lesson or two such as "rubbing her nose in the dirt." Normally, he's a sympathetic and understanding character, but here not so.