Land of the Open Range

Dave Walton (Tim Holt) becomes a deputy to assist his uncle Sheriff Sam Walton (J. Merrill Holmes) who has been wounded in a gun battle with Luke Archer , who was killed. Archer leaves a will providing that any ex-con can win a homestead race for his lands. Gil Carse (Roy Barcroft), executor of the will, soon has the town filled with hard characters as claimants. Dave as his pals, Smokey (Ray Whitley) and Whooper (Lee "Lasses" White), soon find that the only decent claimants are "Dad" Cook (John Elliott, his daughter Mary (Janet Walso) and a reformed pickpocket/safe-cracker named Pinky Gardner (Hobart Cavanaugh). Mary is put out of the race by Carse's henchmen, but Dave, on a trick bet wins Carse's fastest horse and gives to to Cook. As Carse's henchmen try to get Cook out of the race,Dave and his two pals arrive in time to shoot it out with the gang and arrest the survivors.