Two films set in the 'West that never was', starring the singing cowboy, Gene Autry. In 'Riders of the Whistling Pines' (1949), bad guys Henry (Douglas Dumbrille), Bill (Damian O'Flynn) and Pete (Clayton Moore) head a gang of outlaws who are destroying the timberland. When Gene butts in they frame him on a cattle-poisoning charge and set him up for murder. In 'Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm' (1937), Gene and Frog (Smiley Burnette), out to stop a bunch of cattle rustlers, assume the identities of what they believe to be dead bandits, which soon gets them in big trouble.