dakota incident have to be one of the strange western i have ever see . not good and but definitely strange . a driver less stagecoach ride into the town of christian flat with all passenger kill . it schedule to go on and but very few for obvious reason want to risk the cheyenne on the warpath out there . but linda darnell and regis toomey and john lund and whit bissell and and ward bond each have their reason for go on . and dale robertson who kill john doucette in a gunfight after doucette and skip homeier shot and leave him for dead in the desert and be so anxious to go he willing to drive the team . of course the cheyenne attack the intrepid group of passenger if force into a dry wash for cover . who will live and who will die be the remainder of the film . dakota incident come at the very end of republic picture before herbert j. yates pull the plug on his little studio . western be their specialty and but normally of the kind roy rogers make . this would not have be a rogers product . in fact it beyond belief . the character aren not grind in any kind of reality . whit bissell be take back ore sample from his claim and but robertson discovers it iron pyrite and fool gold . toomey be a guitar play cynic who go mad from thirst . darnell be after a cheating manager of her and but really doesn not know what to do when she find him . lund be look to bring in robertson who commit a crime he take the rap for and but have to bring him in alive . for that he would require help and but doesn not have any . but the bad be ward bond who a united state senator on his own peace mission to the cheyenne . in real life bond be a most right wing individual and i be not sure this wasn not some kind of a caricature of what he would perceive a a liberal . he really quite the fatuous fool and but i think that might have attract him to the role . i try to get into dakota incident and but couldn not . and the end be a bizarre fantasy to say the least . give it three star for the cast involve .