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Bill stops at an inn, where he meets an old lawman friend, who is holding two convicted killers. The lawman knows that friends of his two prisoners are in the area and planning to free them. When the lawman is wounded, Bill must take the responsibility of keeping the prisoners in custody himself, helped only by the meek owner of the inn, his domineering wife, and a gambler unwilling to take unnecessary risks.
While Bill is participating in a draw and shoot contest in a town rodeo, the local bank is robbed, and a photographer friend of Bill's is shot and killed. The photographer's young son, however, sees the picture his father took of the robbers just before they shot him.
Working with a posse, Bill captures a bank robber and the stolen money; the rest of the posse want to split the loot, but Bill refuses so the posse decide to kill him; luckily, a band of Comancheros interrupts their plans.
Bill is ambushed and his horse is stolen; he's forced to travel by stagecoach, one he shares with wanted outlaw Pony Sloan; after stopping at a way station, a man there tells Bill the other side to Sloan's story.
After killing one of the outlaw Kiley brothers, the citizens of Calico have buried him as an exhibit in the middle of the main street. The veteran lawman who they've hired as their new sheriff objects to this provocative act, causing the citizens to ask for his resignation. Then Bill comes to warn the citizens after he learns that the Kiley gang is planning to ride in and wipe out the entire town in revenge.
Bill is working with a telegraph company installing lines, but an outlaw gang camped in the area wants to get the crew to leave.
Bill is hired as trail boss driving a cattle herd to Abilene. But he has to contend with two big problems. One is a hostile trail hand, whose anger over Bill getting the ramrod job over him is aggravated by his jealousy over the ranch owner's daughter. The other is a rival drive who's leader will stop at nothing to insure that his herd gets to Abilene first. First of a two part story, concluding with "Showdown At Abilene".
After failing in an attempt to ambush Bill, Bishop pays a band of Native Americans to attack the Akins herd, hoping to scatter the cattle and prevent them from reaching Abilene first.
Still leading the cattle drive, Bill takes his herd across a powerful rancher's land; he finds a woman who claims she is fleeing from a rancher's advances, but he learns that she isn't telling the whole truth.
A former lawman, now a storekeeper, has lost his nerve after a shooting incident, and is now being harassed by a gang of outlaws led by the brother of a man he once killed. The ex-lawman's daughter refuses to let him put on a gun again or try to fight back.
Bill travels to Ciudad Juarez to accept a job from a cattleman, only to find out he's actually been hired to become a scapegoat in a counterfeiting scheme.
A rancher warns Bill and the railroad workers not to put track down through the land his cattle graze on, even though it is government land; he shoots one of the workers, which sends the rest of the workers into a lynching mood.
Bill tries to find out who's been supplying whiskey to railroad workers during their working hours, thus slowing down their progress. He first suspects a lady saloon owner, but it soon becomes apparent she's not the one, and whoever it is is determined to stop the railroad from going through.
Bill agrees to take his former Civil War commander's oldest son with him to make a man out of him; Bill quickly detects the son has an intense bitterness towards his father.
Longley has been a special marshal to the Texas town of Rio Nada. The area has been plagued by Mexican bandits who have used to the cross the border into the United States and raid the countryside. The gang is led by a mysterious leader known only as "El Sombro". When Longley captures an agent for El Sombro, he hopes to use the threat of hanging for the attempted murder of a deputy sheriff to force him to identify the illusive bandit chief. (Note to viewers: Best to first view "The Terrified Tow
After acting marshal Bill orders no guns to be worn on the streets of Rio Nada, a local casino owner sends for two notorious gunmen to kill him.
Bill finds an old prospector almost dead from thirst, and brings him in to the railroad workers camp. But men from a rival outfit talk the old man into spreading a story about finding gold, hoping to lure the workers away from their job.
With his job about done, Bill is planning to leave the railroad workers camp and move on, until a former crewman once fired by MacMorris shows up to make trouble, and Bill learns the man is working as field agent for the company that the workers hoped to get a new contract from.
Bill saves a government agent from an ambush; the agent is carrying a list of landowners who are refusing to pay their taxes, and Bill learns the daughter of one of those landowners arranged the ambush.
Bill finds a town engulfed by a feud between two ranchers. He also learns that his former commanding officer, now a doctor, has turned to drinking, and that a young man blames him for crippling his arm. Bill tries to talk the doctor into staying and not running from the challenges.
A lynch mob wants to hang a young man convicted of killing a family of homesteaders. Bill rides in with a stay of execution from the governor just as the mob is about to break into the jail and the desperate prisoner escapes.
Bill takes the job of escorting a convicted killer to his hanging, knowing that the man's sons and gang members are in the area planning to free him.
Bill escorts a prisoner to Pueblo for trial. He is also to deliver money to the prisoner's mother for his daughter, whom she has custody of. On the way the two men encounter a dust storm, which forces them to take refuge in a ghost town. Three outlaw associates of the prisoner are also coming there.
Bill hopes to prove that his friend Steve Murrow is innocent of killing the man who married the girl he was hoping to marry. But he only has 24 hours to do it before Steve is hung, and the town sheriff has threatened to kill Bill if he tries to break Steve out.
Professional gambler Jake Romer wins big in a poker game, taking thousands of dollars in IOUs from Jim Caldwell, an ex-lawman.
Hot-headed Johnny Kaler, embarrassed that he's been caught cheating at cards, provokes Bill Longley into a barroom brawl and is quickly thrashed.
Bill Longley meets an old, but beautiful, friend who currently owns the local saloon and is happy to renew her acquaintance. This angers the local land baron, who has a proprietary interest in the young lady, and he tries to goad his college-educated son into killing Longley to earn the first notch on his gun.
Orin and Ruth McKnight's May/December romance hits a rough spot when Bill Longley returns from a cattle drive.
While sleeping by his campsite, Bill is startled by sounds of movement in the underbrush. He investigates and finds a young boy who is so frightened that he can't talk. On the road to town, Bill is confronted by two henchmen who try to force Bill to turn the boy over to them; in the ensuing gunfight, Bill kills one of the gunslingers. Bill learns that the lad's father had a gold mine and just struck it rich; he reasons that the miner had been killed by the henchmen and the only witness to the cr
Bill Longley comes to the aid of Ramirez, a farmer who wants to plant peach trees when the local cattlemen object. The town's sheriff, one of Longley's non-commissioned officers during the Civil War, doesn't want any trouble, but is forced to take sides when a lynch mob threatens to hang the farmer.
Two gunmen rob Bill Longley, taking his $8,300 he earned for taking a herd of cattle to Mesa.
After Longley is forced to kill a barfly that tried to shoot him in the back, he learns a quirk in the Montana law code.
While escorting to prison the leader of a notorious gang, a sheriff and a deputy are attacked by the gang.
While riding down a trail, Bill is accosted by a 'boy' who demands he help 'his' father, who has been shot in the stomach. Before the man dies, he asks Bill to take care of his daughter and Bill discovers that the mud-splattered youth who accosted him is really a pretty girl with her long tresses tucked under her cap. Before the man can be a buried, a posse rides into their camp and the express agent accuses the dead man of robbery, but none of the stolen money can be found in the dead man's sad
Bill has been hired to guide two Easterners who want to capture wild stallions to use as studs for breeding. Bill and the Dowds get off on the wrong foot when the husband becomes jealous of his old friendship with his wife. Dowd hires three gunslingers to fake a robbery so that he drive them off and look like a hero in his wife's eyes but the owlhoots plan to steal all of the Easterners money and kill Bill Longley in the bargain.
Bill Longley shares a stagecoach compartment with Jody Sammett and his pregnant wife Maria on their journey to meet Jody's father, Big Jim Sammett for Christmas. Jody dies helping to fight off bandits who try to rob their stagecoach and Maria's father-in-law refuses to take in his son's Mexican-American wife or allow anyone in town to help her even though she has started in labor. While Bill tries to convince the old man to change his mind, the unsuccessful bandits try to abduct the town's only
After Longley rescues the wounded Reverend Kilgore from two would-be bushwhackers, he learns that the parson was heading for Phillipsburg, a town with a reputation for killing men of the cloth. Bill decides to pose as the minister to investigate, but without his holster at the minister's insistence. With only Kilgore's Bible for protection, Bill attempts to rally the townspeople against the town boss and his crooked judge.
A crooked sheriff and his henchmen are attempting to continue their reign of terror by running a crooked election. Longley persuades an alcoholic former Harvard law professor to stand-up to the old sheriff and then backs him when he must evict the gunsels from a ranch they're trespassing on.
Bill Longley returns from a cattle drive and discovers an impostor has stolen his mail, destroyed a saloon and dallied with a pretty girl, causing his father to demand a shotgun wedding. The impostor, a criminal recently sprung from jail by a crooked gambler with a grudge against Longley, starts to have a change of heart when he discovers the respect and admiration others have for a man who stands up for the weak and has second thoughts about luring Longley into the trap the gambler has set for
Longley has just ridden into the town of Yellow Jacket, when he sees a gunman unhitching a team of horses over the loud objections of a pretty woman. When Longley intervenes, he discovers the man is only carrying out an obscure town ordinance that forbids leaving a wagon on the street overnight - the fine being $50, payable to the town marshal. Longley learns that the marshal has been lining his pockets with fines for obscure town laws he enforces with vigor and determines to beat the man at his
A crooked gambler with a Kentucky-born thoroughbred prods a drunken rancher into betting his entire spread and all the money he has in the bank on a horse race. The gambler tries to incapacitate the rancher's entry in the race but fails; however, what his henchmen couldn't accomplish a rattlesnake bite could and the horse comes up lame racing to fetch the doctor. Longley agrees to allow his quarter-horse to enter the race instead.
Longley rides to the rescue when four gunmen ambush a man riding in a buggy; Longley brings the wounded man to a nearby house, but nobody wants to help him because he's a judge scheduled to preside over the trial of a local land baron.
Longley, trapped by a landslide, is rescued by a man on the run from the law; he's accused of shooting a man, but the sheriff just assumed he's guilty because he's already served a jail term -- and he's sweet on the sheriff's sister.
Longley and Captain Acosta of the Mexican Rurales travel to San Thomas to bid on a shipment of rifles and ammunition being sold at auction. There efforts are in vain - to their surprise, they are outbid by a beautiful blonde woman. They learn that she's merely the front for a notorious gun runner who plans to sell the guns along the border where they'll soon fall into the hands of the Apaches. Longley and Acosta throw into together to prevent the gunrunners plans from coming to fruition.
Stopping by a remote cabin to water his horse, Longley stumbles across its dead owner, the recipient of two bullets in the back. The dead man's brothers don't believe Longley's story that he just killed a rattlesnake and are preparing to string him up when he's rescued by a stranger with a dislike for lynchings. Longley explains his story to the marshal, who rides out of town to find the rattler, but Longley soon discovers that just about half the town was related to the dead man - and many of t
Longley must help a parolee and his pretty daughter battle a family of outlaws who are trying to drive him off his ranch. Longley has a pair of unlikely allies - a young gunman dressed all in black and a half-crazed old woman who was long held as a prisoner by the Apaches.
After the surrender at Appomattox, Longley and two of his junior officers agree to a reunion; five years later, the trio rendezvous and the sheriff suspects one of them of stealing an army-payroll.
Longley chases after Clay Thompson, a ruthless bounty hunter who is pursuit of a man falsely accused of bank robbery. Thompson won't believe the Texan when he explains that the wanted posters are being retracted and arranges with a crooked deputy sheriff to ensure that Bill won't interfere with his deadly vocation.
When an outlaw gang robs the bank, Bill joins a posse to track them down; when the outlaws cross into Mexico, the sheriff and his men return home, but Bill crosses the border to avenge the deaths of a mother and daughter.
An actor/cardsharp who cleaned out two men at poker is set up as the fall guy by a crooked express agent and his cohorts when Longley is ambushed and the payroll he is delivering stolen.
Though reluctant at first, Bill accepts the job to become his old friend Sheriff Ben Tildy's deputy; several deputies before him had been killed by two ruthless men taking over the town, and the residents blame Tildy for their deaths.
Bill stops a trail boss from harassing a saloon girl; the humiliated trail boss then uses an eager young man to join his group and get revenge on Bill.
Bill tries to help a young woman being pursued by two men; the men tell Bill that she's a thief, and they are bringing her back to the gunfighter she is fleeing from; unfortunately, her experience with the man has made her bitter towards all men.