Conagher
Conagher is a 1991 Turner Network Television Western film based on a Louis LAmour novel of the same name, starring Sam Elliott as Conn Conagher, an honest, hardworking cowboy who learns that his fellow ranch hands plan to steal the bosss cattle. Katharine Ross, Elliotts wife since 1984, stars as Mrs. Evie Teale, who tries to raise a son Cody Braun and a daughter Anndi McAfee on an isolated homestead after her husband, Jacob Teale Billy Green Bush, leaves on a business trip and never returns. Evie adjusts well to the wilderness You dont know what music is until you hear the wind in the cedars.
Meanwhile, a Stagecoach passes by the Teale farm Evie Teale agrees to work for the Stagecoach by feeding customers who come by. One of the men on the Stagecoach warns Evie of a man named Conn Conagher, who he says is a fierce gunfighter. One day, Conagher does stop by for food, along with his partner Mahler. The Teale farm later comes under attack by Indians. The Stagecoach arrives by again in the middle of the gunfight, and the drivers and the passengers defend the farm. The Indians retreat in the morning.Conagher, meanwhile, drifts out in the wilderness. He and Mahler meet an old rancher, Seaborn Tay, who hires both of them for work. Conagher proves to be a hardworking cowhand, but the ranch comes under threat by the Ladder Five gang, led by Smoke Parnell. Mahler deserts the ranch after an argument with Conagher and joins the Ladder Five. Conagher saves the ranch and Tays cattle twice from the Ladder Five, both in a series of quick gun battles. He also visits the Teale farm regularly, and he and Evie grow fond of each other and he becomes a father figure to her children. ........
Source: Wikipedia
