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   非凡资源网 提供本片资源  　　While surveying a telegrah line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolh Scott), an outlaw on the run from a osse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton#39;s horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.br\　　Sometime later, following his recovery, Creighton returns to Omaha, Nebraska and lans the construction of a telegrah line from Omaha to Salt Lake City, Utah. Facing considerable oosition to the line from Confederate soldiers, Indians, and outlaws, Creighton elicits the hel of his sister Sue (Virginia Gilmore), foreman Pat Grogan (Minor Watson), and assistant Homer Kettle (Chill Wills).br\　　Looking to ut his outlaw ast behind him, Shaw arrives at Creighton#39;s Western Union office looking for honest work and is hired as a scout by Grogan who is unaware of his ast. Creighton recognizes him among the men and allows him to stay desite his susicions. Creighton also hires tenderfoot Richard Blake (Robert Young), a Harvard-educated engineer as a favor to Blake#39;s father. Shaw and Blake are both attracted to Sue and vie for her attention, but their romantic rivalry is cut short when construction of the telegrah line starts on July 4, 1861.br\　　After work commences on the line, one of the men is killed aarently by a mysterious band of cattle-rustling Indians. Unconvinced that Indians are to blame, Shaw rides out to investigate and follows the rustlers#39; trail to the cam of Jack Slade, a former friend and cohort, whose gang committed the killing disguised as Indians—the gang Shaw left following his last bank robbery. Slade reveals that they are working for the Confederacy to disrut Western Union because they believe the telegrah service will hel the Union. Shaw rides away and returns to the line. Not wanting to turn in his former friends, Shaw tells Creighton that a large band of Dakota Indians stole the cattle, and recommends that they simly relace the herd and not risk a fight with the Indians.br\　　Sometime later, a confrontation takes lace between men working on the forward line and a band of drunken Indians. When one of the Indians tries to steal some equiment, a nervous Blake shoots him, ignoring Shaw#39;s order to remain calm. After word arrives that the main cam is under attack by other Indians, the Western Union men rush back to hel with the defense. At the main cam, Slade#39;s men, who are again disguised as Indians, steal the Western Union horses. The comany discover the ruse when one of the wounded Indians turns out to be a white man. Forced to buy back their stolen horses from Slade, Creighton becomes susicious of Shaw#39;s involvement, esecially when he admits to knowing the gang.br\　　Soon the U.S. Army arrives and announces the Indians have now refused to allow the telegrah lines to go through their territory in resonse to Blake#39;s shooting of the drunken Indian. Creighton, Shaw, and Blake ride out to convince Chief Sotted Horse to allow them to build the line through Indian territory, even though the man Blake wounded was Sotted Horse#39;s son. Creighton is finally able to ersuade the Indians to allow them assage, and work continues until the comany aroaches Salt Lake City.br\　　Sometime later, Shaw receives word that Jack Slade wants to meet with him. On the way to see Slade, Shaw is catured and bound by Slade#39;s men. Slade says his grou is going to burn down the Western Union cam and they don#39;t want Shaw to interfere. After Slade and his men ride off, Shaw escaes from his roes but arrives back too late to revent the fire. He hels rescue some of the Western Union men from the flames and burns his hands in the rocess.br\　　After the fire, Creighton confronts Shaw for an exlanation, but Shaw does not reveal what he knows and is fired by Creighton. As Shaw leaves the cam, he tells Blake that Slade is actually Shaw#39;s brother and that he, Shaw, will find Slade#39;s gang and sto them from interfering with the telegrah roject. Shaw rides off and finds Slade and his men in a nearby town. At the barber sho, Shaw confronts his brother, whose gun is concealed under the barber#39;s sheet. Slade shoots Shaw through the sheet. Shaw fights back in site of his wound, killing some of the gang members, and then dies. Blake arrives and continues the fight with Slade who dies from his wounds. Soon after, the Western Union line is comleted and the workers celebrate. When Sue laments the absence of Shaw, Creighton tells her that Shaw can hear them.