<P> Following a meeting with a group of homesteaders whom he cautions against trying to farm on the Mesa Verde: </P> <P> "God made that land for the buffalo . It serves pretty well for cattle . But it hates the plow! And even the government should know you can't farm six thousand feet above sea level!" </P> <P> He hires one of them, attractive widow Louise Warren (Yvonne De Carlo), as his cook and housekeeper . G.W. welcomes both her and her two children into his home, including grown son Dev (Patrick Wayne), who is handy with his fists, good with cattle, and is an excellent chess player, who had to leave Purdue University on the death of his father . </P> <P> Katherine (a.k.a. Katie), returns to the town of McLintock, seeking a divorce from G.W. He declines to give her one, having no idea why she has been so angry with him and why she moved out two years ago . </P>

Who played mrs. warren in the movie mclintock