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''The Ballad of Cat Ballou'' is the story of Cat and Clay, told with all the earthy simplicity of a folk-song out of those forever banished days of six guns, frontier dance halls and blazing range wars between cattleman and farmer, the days when a sense of honor could sometimes make a man an outlaw.
That was what started Cat's father Frankie Ballou on his career against the railroad which had ruined his family. But Cathy, the girl who was to be Cat's mother, was the prettiest schoolmarm west of Cheyenne, and the first time Frankie saw her he swore never to rob again. He kept his word, too, but in the time it took to right himself with the law he and Cat's mother were forced to wait in the mountaintop Roost of Frankie and his men. It was there, one wildly stormy night, that Cat was born. She was not merely pretty, she was disturbingly beautiful; and she knew it and men knew it.
But in her heart she wanted only one and waited for him, the bold young bandit Clay Boone. While she waited for Clay, others sought her. Among them was Abe Field, son of old Adam Field, the hated boss of the powerful Purple Valley Cattlemen's Association. There was already bad blood between the Fields and the Ballous, and when the fiery young Cat shamed Abe and sent him running off like a rabbit one day when he caught her swimming alone, Abe's desire for revenge began a world of trouble.
And so it was that with passion and fire and courage, Cat Ballou and Clay Boone came together in the face of treachery and danger. Their story of daring and love was one to make men wonder at them and sing about them in days long, long after.