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Western Wednesdays: Fighting Mustang (1948)

SYNOPSIS:
A horse rustling outfit, the Black Diamond gang, is making off with wild horses intended to be used by the Texas rangers. During one of the ambushes, the unscrupulous marauders rustle five horses while injuring Cyclone, one of the rangers’ best and most temperamental stallions.

Having had his fill of these incidents, Ranger Sunset Carson [Sunset Carson] is charged with the task of recapturing the stolen mares and apprehending the rustlers. As it turns out, the rangers do not possess jurisdiction over the Three Corners territory in which the gang is hiding out as the stretch of land has yet to be annexed into the state of Texas.
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Western Wednesdays: Santa Fe Saddlemates (1945)

SYNOPSIS:
Special investigator Sunset Carson [Sunset Carson] is recruited by the governor of the territory of New Mexico, L. Bradford Prince [Frank Jaquet], to investigate a diamond smuggling ring taking place at the border. Along the way he meets city slicker Aloysius J. Phillpotts [Olin Howland] and makes him his saddlemate and partner and rechristens him “Deadeye.”
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