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- Fictionalized stories about Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid set in New Mexico in the 1870s.
- Pat Garrett is wounded trying to prevent an express office robbery. His new deputy finds evidence that the shooter was his close friend, Billy the Kid. Billy swears he's innocent of the crime and flees the posse sent to arrest him so he can find the men who are trying to frame him for the crime.
- A wild bunch of cowboys ride into Lincoln, vowing to blow the town wide open. Because of a tragedy, Pat Garrett has turned in his badge. Can Billy convince Pat of his duty in time?
- Over the objections of Pat Garrett and the boy's father, Billy Bonney tries to teach the son of an alcoholic ex-lawman some of the gunslinger's craft that he's learned over the years. When the youngster is wounded in a gunfight that he provoked, the boy's father goes gunning for Billy.
- Beautfiul blonde Nita Jardine arrives in Lincoln and tries to convince Pat and Billy that her estranged husband, a former convict recently released from prison, is following her and plans to kill her the next time they meet. Billy is willing to defend the damsel in distress, but Pat learns Nita's story doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
- A meek middle-aged man walks into Garrett's office and demands to be arrested for robbery and provides a carpetbag full of money as evidence. He tells Garrett that he stole the money from a crooked politician in St. Louis and agrees to testify against him if the lawman will protect him on the return to Missouri since he's convinced that gunmen have been hired to kill him. The sheriff is reluctant to believe his prisoner's wild tale until he receives a telegram collaborating the theft and a notorious killer for hire appears on the streets of Lincoln.
- A block of marble meant for a Lincoln businessman's tombstone is stolen from a stone cutter's shop and Garrett suspects Billy Bonney of the theft, though he can't prove it because he can't find the slab. Billy took the tombstone for the most honorable of reasons - to mark the grave of a pulper's widow.
- While trying to ride a bucking bronco, Billy is thrown violently off the horse's back and smashes his head against a wooden post. Taken to Lincoln for medical examination, the doctor decides that Billy has a concussion and prescribes medicine to keep him unconscious for at least twelve hours. The medication has the opposite effect on Billy - worse, he barricades himself in the cantina, believing everyone in town is conspiring to hang him.
- A scruffy no-account shows up in Lincoln with Mary Susan, his lovely teen-aged daughter, and tries to arrange her marriage to whichever bachelor will pay him the highest price. Pat Garrett and Billy Bonney intervene and runs the pair out of town. When her father becomes drunk, Mary Susan flees his campsite and returns to town set on marrying either Pat or Billy.
- Pat finds Ed Corbin and his wife were murdered and their servant girl, Agatha hiding in the barn scared out of her wits. She claims a monster was trying to kill her and the Corbins got in his way. While checking the Corbin ranch for clues, Garrett discovers a fresh footprint made by an enormous boot.
- Garrett negotiates the return of a girl, now a full-grown woman, who was captured by the Apaches nine years earlier. Although her father welcomes her back with open arms, the former captive yearns to return to her husband, Talano, a noted Chirachaua warrior, who has sworn to kill any white man that tries to prevent her return to his village.
- When Pat Garrett kills Johnny Nagel after a botched general store robbery, the young man's father doesn't blame the lanky lawman for his son's death - instead he blames Billy the Kid whom he saw talking to Johnny earlier in the day. Karl threatens to blast Pat with his shotgun if Billy doesn't come to the jail unarmed.
- On his death bed, a wealthy rancher asks Pat to help him find his long-lost son who left Lincoln County with his mother when he was eight years old. A series of impostors answer Pat's posters, but only one can answer Pat's questions and has the proper scar he received from a branding iron years earlier. Everyone is pleased until Billy bumps into the young man and remembers him using a different name when the two men were drinking heavily in an El Paso saloon.
- At a Christmas party, Billy accidentally knocks a drink from a man's hand while swinging wildly a piñata. A fight ensues and Billy winds up killing the man in self-defense. Billy flees Lincoln fearing that the local townspeople will not believe his story and stumbles upon a baby hidden near a burning cabin.
- Garrett plans for a pleasant visit with his girlfriend are dashed when he finds her house in flames and her father dead. Rancher Neal Bailey claims to own the land and is within his rights to burn out squatters. In the ensuing argument, Garrett shoots the rancher and Bailey swears revenge, deciding to carry it out on Garrett's wedding day.
- Billy rides to Gunsight to collect money for cattle delivered to the ranch of Judge Roy A. Barlow. Barlow fancies himself 'The Law North of Lincoln' and throws Billy in jail for being drunk in disorderly immediately after taking possession of the bill of sale and stealing Billy's bankroll. Garrett comes searching for Billy and learns from the town drunk that Judge Barlow murdered the surveyor who discovered that Gunsight is actually within the Lincoln County limits and, as a result, within the sheriff's jurisdiction.
- Francisco and Morton, his landlord, get into an argument over the back rent that the tenant farmer owes. In the ensuing scuffle, Francisco accidentally kills the landlord and, to make matters worse, severely injures Morton's young daughter, the only witness, when the farmer flees the house. Unable to speak, the young girl can only identify the tenant as her father's shooter.
- Garrett rides into a boomtown that a railroad considers their personal fiefdom. Not only does the company run crooked gambling houses to keep their workers broke, but they refuse to pay their taxes or even for the cattle their company has purchased. Garrett enlists Billy Bonney in his campaign to make the railroad see its civic duty.
- A young doctor arrives in town to take over the practice of a beloved physician who recently died. Although his skills are marvelous and his knowledge prodigious, his poor bedside manner quickly alienates the townsfolk who he was hired to treat. His future rests on his ability to save a pregnant young woman who tried to commit suicide when she was deserted by her husband.
- Hendry Grant, a notorious shootist, rides into Lincoln and challenges Billy Bonney to a gunfight to raise his reputation as a gunfighter. When Billy refuses to meet him, Grant goads one of Billy's friends into a gunfight and kills the young man.
- Trying to stay out of trouble, Billy accepts a new job as a shotgun guard for a stagecoach line. What seemed like a peaceful job quickly turns violent when his stagecoach is held up by two outlaws resulting in a murdered driver and a stolen strongbox. Billy guns down one crook and manages to recover the money, but buries the loot in hopes of luring the other criminal out of hiding.
- Billy covets a handsome pair of boots in a shop window. A friend offers to buy him the boots with but one string attached - Billy must help him drive a herd of stolen cattle to market. Before Billy can decide, the owner of the cattle and his cowboys capture the pair and decide to lynch both men.
- Pat receives a telegram that Jack Barron, the leader of an outlaw gang comprised mostly of men who rode with Quantrill's Raiders during the Civil War, is heading to Lincoln to avenge himself upon Billy Bonney for killing one of his men when he tried to rustle some cattle. The townspeople fear that Barron's gang will raze the town if they don't turn Billy over to them, but Garrett deputizes the Kid instead.
- Pat Garrett, Lincoln County's newest deputy sheriff, rides into a gold mining boomtown and discovers the town, including its marshal, are owned by a crooked saloon owner who can literally get away with murder. When Garrett refuses to be bribed, the saloon owner tries to hire Billy the Kid to murder the lawman, not realizing the two men are close friends.
- A cattle dealer, Vince Ober, has won a contract to supply beef to the army forts in New Mexico. Ober plans to increase his profit margin by stealing as many animals as possible and tries to convince Billy Bonney to lead a gang of rustlers. When Billy refuses, Ober hires gunmen to kill him.
- Jack rides into Silver Creek, a boomtown in Lincoln County, to investigate reports of lawlessness and finds Jason Creary has set himself up as the town boss who owns everything but Sal's saloon which he plans to get control of if Sal won't marry him. Meanwhile, the women's temperance movement has organized and plans to shut down all of Creary's saloons.
- Sheriff Garrett has his hands full when a gang of horse thieves starts operating in Lincoln County. He learns to his chagrin that the crooks are a pair of pretty, but devious, blondes, but is somewhat mollified when his friend Billy Bonney is victimized by their charms, as well.
- Upon learning that a New York reporter has traveled West to write about a series of articles about "The Bad Men of the West", Billy spins wild tales of his criminal exploits. When the newspaperman wildly expands about Billy's yarns, the New Mexican government orders an investigation into Sheriff Pat Garrett career as a lawman.
- When Billy Bonney falls in love with Maria, the pretty daughter of a Mexican-American sheepherder, he finds himself in the middle of a quarrel between the Lincoln County ranchers and the shepherds who are flocking to the territory because of its abundant grass.
- Lt. Baxter brings Pat evidence that whiskey has been found on the local Apache reservation and demands that the sheriff put an end to the trade. When Garrett discovers a still on Pa McBean's rundown ranch and finds a crate of liquor hidden in Billy Bonney's wagon, he arrests the two men. McBean's tomboy daughters, the real culprits, decide to break Billy and their father out of jail.
- Desperate to get married, May and June McBean salt their father's worthless mine with gold nuggets in hopes that potential suitors will think that they're heiresses to a rich strike. The plan backfires when McBean purchases many luxuries on credit for which he won't be able to pay.
- Garrett must take Dan Rees, a convicted felon, to the New Mexico Territorial prison in Tularosa to spend ten years in prison. Friends of the man Rees killed don't believe the punishment the jury handed out was harsh enough and plan to carry out heir own brand of justice during the train ride.
- Garrett is ordered by Governor Lew Wallace to provide every assistance to a small cavalry patrol attempting to negotiate the surrender of a renegade band of Apaches. Neither Pat nor Billy Bonney, who has been hired as a scout, believe that the officer leading the patrol, a stern martinet, is the man for the job.
- Pat enters a shooting contest whose prize is a valuable Winchester '73 rifle and wins the competition. In front of witnesses Billy Bonney jokingly tells Pat that if he won't sell him the gun, he'll steal it. When the gunsmith is killed and the rifle stolen from the man's shop, the townspeople assume Billy is the guilty of both crimes.
- Pretty suffragette Amy Dodds throws a brick through a window in the Lincoln County jail. When Pat Garrett refuses to arrest her, she marches into Murphy's saloon and destroys his beautiful bar mirror and most of his liquor bottles with a barrage of bricks. When Garrett finally arrests her, she tells a newspaper reporter that the sheriff mistreated her in prison to gain publicity for her cause.
- When a vengeful father sees Billy Bonney with a necklace that belonged to his runaway daughter, he accuses the gunslinger of murdering the teenager. Billy had received the jewelry as a gift from the young woman for treating her wounds when she was injured in a rockslide, but now he must find the girl to prove himself innocent. If he does find the girl, her father plans to beat her within an inch of her life for being disobedient.
- A young Mexican woman arrives in Pat Garrett's office with a centuries old document that appears to be a Spanish land grant which gives her family title to half the land in Lincoln County. Garrett can't believe that the document is the genuine article, but after consulting with experts in the territorial capital in Santa Fe is forced to concede it's legitimacy and makes plans to evict the county's erstwhile property owners.
- Garrett interrupts a gang of bank robbers who were attempting to break into the bank's safe and is forced to shoot one of the three thieves. While the outlaw is having his wounds tended to, a man staggers into the doctor's office suffering from symptoms of the bubonic plague. For the town's safety, the physician asks Garrett and the outlaw to remain in his home under quarantine.
- When an outlaw kidnaps Lincoln's popular Catholic priest, Pat tries to organize a posse to free the padre and capture the criminal. Meanwhile, Billy decides the best way to prevent the priest from coming to harm is to pay the ransom the abductor demands, so he steals the needed funds from the town's only bank.
- Garrett is traveling through Mexico with a prisoner bound for trial in Lincoln. An impending storm forces the pair to take shelter in a small poverty-stricken pueblo where the seemingly friendly villagers offer to them hospitality. It soon becomes apparent that the townspeople expect to be well-compensated for their help.
- During a murderous stagecoach robbery, Kate Elder pulls the mask off the robber and recognizes the culprit, but, when questioned by Sheriff Pat Garrett, denies ever having seen the man before. When Doc Holliday refuses to take Kate back into his life, the spurned lover testifies that Doc was the man who robbed the stage and killed the shotgun guard. Billy Bonney knows Kate was lying since he played poker all night with Holliday, but Pat refuses to believe him.
- Billy introduces Pat to his current girlfriend and her father, Ben Wiley. Pat thinks he recognizes the man as the informer who ruined his attempt break out of a Confederate prisoner of war camp during the Civil War resulting in the death of one of Pat's men.
- Billy thrashes Sledge when the brutal wagon driver tries to lash a young Mexican boy with a bullwhip. When Garrett learns that sledge "purchased" the boy from his impoverished parents for a few dollars, he kicks Sledge out of town and instructs Billy to escort the boy back to his village. Bonney learns that Sledge works for a owner of the town's trading post and the crooked businessman has all of its citizens in his thrall because of his shady practices.
- A widow who is engaged to Tom Davis, a friend of Pat's, arrives in Lincoln with her young son. Davis asks Pat to look after his fiancée until he can return from a cattle drive and the widow begins to wonder if Garrett might be a more suitable husband than the man she is pledged to marry.
- The McBeans receive word that the railroad will be laying track across their hardscrabble ranch and, as a result they will be evicted. May and June hatch a wild scheme to lure Pat Garrett away from Lincoln so Pa McBean can pose as the county sheriff and intercept the process server before he can legally remove them from their land.
- John Miller, an ex-lawman bent on taking over Lincoln County frames Garrett and Billy the Kid for cattle rustling by mixing animals from his herd with those that Pat and Billy were driving to market. To make the evidence completely convincing, Miller pays a saloon girl to plant evidence on Pat and lie under oath during the pre-trail hearing and then murders her so she can't recant her testimony.
- Concerned about the prospect of an Indian war with the Mescallero Apaches, Governor Lew Wallace asks Pat to investigate reports that a French foreign agent may be providing guns to the Apaches. The United States government fears that a European power may be stirring up trouble as a diversion to hide their true objective - the reoccupation of Mexico.
- During a severe drought, the only spring still flowing is on the Apache reservation and Mike Gray Eagle is making the most of the calamity by selling water to the white citizens at exorbitant prices. The Lincoln town council hires a pretty rainmaker to break the drought, but Gray Eagle and his men abduct the woman before she can break up their lucrative business.
- Billy ignores Pat's warning about marauding Apaches and rides to Santa Fe to keep a meeting with a pretty girl. On the road, Billy is wounded by the Indians and takes refuge in an abandoned fort where he finds three women, one of them pregnant and several children. Billy must organize a defense when the Apaches regroup for another attack.
- Jacques Montreaux, a showman with four beautiful performers arrives to perform at the local opera house. He reports to Garrett that in a dressing room at another theater, he found a letter from a woman begging her daughter not to carry through her plan to murder Billy Bonney. Billy laughs the threat off as a joke, but Garrett investigates and discovers that all of the women in the troupe have something to hide.