It's remarkable how close the three movies made from this story adhere to each other and yet they changed the characters as they appear in the book. I actually think that for once Hollywoods changes didn't ruin the story because they fleshed them out more than they were in Haycox's short story. The basic plot of the stage running through Apache territory is the same. The Ringo kid character came from a gunfighter but the story doesn't say why the men in lordsburg want him dead. Dallas was a madam returning home instead of being run out of town. The plot with the banker who robs his own bank is completely non existent. I am of the type who can watch several remakes in a row because I just enjoy the different treatment