Ex-lawman turn rancher Jed Peter Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is travel a little herd of cows when a grouping of nine men on horseback, led by Captain Harriet Wilson (Ed Begley Sr.), sit up and accuse him of have steal the cows and kill their proprietor. refuse to believe his history, they thread him up by the cervix and go forth him for dead, but they don’ t do the job right.