I haven't watched this movie in some years ... long enough that the storyline was a guess for me. As far as westerns go, I find it a worthwhile watch.
Memorable moments:
A counting
Death scene that mentions tamales.
The frank ride to THE END (note I didn't spoil whether it was happy or not).

"The Humboldt"=The Humnoldt Trail. I'm just trying to figure out what the locations would be modern day ... I like knowing stuff like that. :-)

Based on the Louis L'Amour novel of the same name.
L'Amour was a prolific writer ... 105 works.

Soon I will start reading the earliest L'Amour's novel ... Westward the Tide. It is available for FREE borrow on OpenLibrary. The publication on there is the 70s ... but this book came out, in Great Britain, in the 50s.

Matt Bardoul was a good man to have as a friend and a bad one to make trouble with. He was also a single-minded drifter--until he met his match in an outspoken beauty named Jacquine Coyle. She was headed into the Bighorn Mountains with her father and an expedition in search of gold. After Matt signs on to join them, he discovers that there is a group of outlaws in the party--gunfighters and thieves that Matt wouldn't trust for a minute. At first it's unclear what they are planning, but before long Matt realizes that he's the only man standing between innocent people and a brutal conspiracy of greed, lust, and cold-blooded murder.

-----Films scored by Hans J. Salter