The Texan

Bill Longley arrives in a small Texas town with the intention of helping.

Professional gambler Jake Romer wins big in a poker game, taking thousands of dollars in IOUs from Jim Caldwell, an ex-lawman, who had planned to buy cattle for his ranch in Texas. Convinced he's been cheated, Caldwell and his men hold-up the Cattleman Association. Although Bill Longley hates Romer and rode with Caldwell years ago, he agrees to join the posse to capture his old friend.

Hot-headed Johnny Kaler 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.

Orin and Ruth McKnight's May/December romance hits a rough spot when Bill Longley returns from a cattle drive with news that Orin's son from his first marriage died driving off rustlers. To make matters worse, Ruth's old beau has traveled all the way from Ohio to bring his former girlfriend home.

While sleeping by his campsite, Bill is startled by sounds of movement in the underbrush.

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 - any man who slays another in a fair fight is responsible for the care and feeding of the widow and children until she gets married.

While escorting to prison the leader of a gang, a sheriff and a deputy are attacked by the gang.

Bill is accosted by a boy who demands he help his father, who has been shot in the stomach.

Bill has been hired to guide two Easterners who want to capture wild stallions.

A group of bandits attempts to rob a stagecoach, but one of their own is wounded.

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. Bill attempts to rally the townspeople against the town boss and his crooked judge.

Longley is hired to drive the first herd of cattle directly from the Texas Panhandle to Denver.

A crooked sheriff and his henchmen try to run a crooked election.

Longley rescues the lone survivor of a murderous stagecoach robbery.

Longley assists a Hungarian peddler when he is attacked by local toughs.

Longley attempts to escort a bank robber sentenced to spend five years in prison in a distant town.

Longley's old friend, pretty ranch owner Martha Driscoll, negotiates a highly successful sale at the end of a cattle drive. Although her friends urge her to put her money in the bank, Martha refuses and ends up being robbed and murdered - but not before naming her killer - Clint Gleason. Longley tracks the killer to his hometown where his father is sheriff and believes his son is innocent.

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, 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.

Longley has just ridden into the town of Yellow Jacket, when he sees a gunman.

Wylie Ames, a big gruff widower, has been corresponding with a lonely woman.

A crooked gambler attempts to rig a horse race using a rattlesnake.

Longley rescues a man, but when he seeks help for him nobody wants to assist because he's a judge.