Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone's cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is poisoning the water supply. While Gene is away Tom confronts the miners and a men is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Now Gene not only has the dying cattle problem but his ranch owner is in jail.
Cast of Back in the Saddle
Gene AutryGene Autry
Smiley BurnetteFrog Milhouse
Mary LeePatsy
Julie BishopTaffy
Edward NorrisTom Bennett
Addison RichardsDuke Winston
Arthur LoftE.G. Blaine
Edmund EltonJudge Bent
Joe McGuinnSheriff Simpson
Edmund CobbRancher Williams
Robert BarronSaloon Boss Ward
Fred 'Snowflake' ToonesTrain Porter (uncredited)