Author Archive: Retro

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Ben Hall offers $1000 for the wild Devil Horse which Jim Wright and Skeeter capture. While Jim is away, Gil Davis kills Skeeter and takes the horse. The Sheriff then arrests Jim for Skeeter’s murder. But unknown to them, an outlaw witnessed the killing.

Ryder and Fallon have killed Moore, taken over his ranch, and injured Bud Ringo, Moore’s replacement. Rodeo champ Johnny Ringo returns to help his brother. Posing as an inept cowhand, he becomes the cook’s helper during the day, but at night he goes into action.

Fleeing from the law, a wounded Tex Broderick is taken in by Jean Bennett. Later she has him deliver a large amount of money. When saloon owner Bowie and his men attack and take the money, the Sheriff jails Tex for that and his previous crime. Jean lets him out and he captures Bowie and the money. But the arriving posse still thinks he’s a wanted man and he is shot.

Gunfighter Lightnin’ Crandall puts away his gun and heads west posing as a tenderfoot. But he quickly gets in the middle of a range war between the Shannon’s and Blaine. He sides with the Shannon’s only to find that his old friend and mentor Parson Durkin is Blaine’s hired gunman.

Render, posing as an European Baron, arrives at the Colonel’s ranch where he plans to steal some of his fine race horses, rename them and then race them. Hoppy arrives at the same time and immediately becomes suspicious of the Baron. Winning money from the Baron at poker, he marks the bills. He is robbed but as suspected, the money reappears and it is the Baron that has it.

The Range Busters head for Pinto Basin where a series of stage robberies have occurred. To try and find the gang’s boss, Crash sends out a empty money box. The plan backfires when the boss has the Range Busters identified as the robbers. Thinking it is now safe, the bank sends out a big money shipment. Needing to rob the stage, the boss gets the boys out of jail so they can be blamed. But this is just the chance they need to catch the robbers.

Schmidt is the head of a group of spies building an arsenal along the border. Tim from the American side and Gringo from the Mexican side have been sent to investigate. But when they arrive they find the men they were to meet murdered and themselves arrested for the murders.

An extortion gang, headed by Banker J. M. Bradley, controls the cowtown of Miller’s Flats and saloon owner McClure aids Bradley in operating a so-called “business protectice organization”. Garrett, reform editor of the newspaper is murdered, and Marshal Tim Hammond arrives to find his father, Parson Hammond, has also been killed. Garrett’s young son, Jerry, takes Tim to his sister Betty, who is now editing the paper. Slim Doyle, collector for the gang, is beaten up by Tim as he tries to collect money from Betty. Under the name of Hays, Tim opens up a blacksmith shop. Bradley discovers Tim’s true identity and orders him eliminated. With the aid of Sheriff Kramer, Tim has Slim arrested on a trumped-up charge of murder, and then incites the townspeople to stage a “fake” attack on the jail to lynch Slim, who breaks down and offers to confess. Betty is informed by telephone that the gang has kidnapped [...]