The Texan

Bill stops at an inn, where he meets an old lawman friend, who is holding two convicted killers. The lawman knows that friends of his two prisoners are in the area and planning to free them. When the lawman is wounded, Bill must take the responsibility of keeping the prisoners in custody himself, helped by the meek owner of the inn, his wife, and a gambler unwilling to take unnecessary risks.

While Bill is participating in a draw and shoot contest in a town rodeo, the local bank is robbed, and a photographer friend of Bill's is shot and killed. The photographer's young son, however, sees the picture his father took of the robbers just before they shot him.

Riding with a posse, Bill captures the bank robber they were after, as well as the money he had stolen. But the others in the posse decide to split the loot among themselves. When Bill is the only one who refuses to go along with the idea, they decide they'll have to kill him as well as the robber. But a band of Comancheros interrupts their plans.

Bill is ambushed and his horse is stolen. Having to take a stagecoach, he finds that one of the other passengers is wanted outlaw Pony Sloan. But after stopping at a way station, he meets another man from whom he finds there is another side to Sloan's story.

After killing one of the outlaw Kiley brothers, the citizens of Calico have buried him as an exhibit in the middle of the main street. However, their new sheriff objects to this provocative act, causing the citizens to ask for his resignation. Then Bill comes to warn the citizens after he learns that the Kiley gang is planning to ride in and wipe out the entire town in revenge.

While working for a telegraph company stringing poles on a route through an unknown canyon, Bill Longley and his crew encounter a gang of outlaws disguised as miners.

Bill is hired as the trail boss driving a cattle herd to Abilene but he has to contend with two big problems. One is a hostile trail hand, whose anger over Bill getting the ramrod job over him is aggravated by his jealousy over the ranch owner's daughter. The other is a rival drive whose leader will stop at nothing to ensure that his herd gets to Abilene first.

After failing in an attempt to ambush Bill, Bishop pays a band of Indians to attack the Akins herd, hoping to scatter the cattle and thus prevent them from reaching Abilene first. Conclusion of a two-part story, the first part being "Stampede".

Still leading the cattle drive, Bill is allowed to take his herd across a powerful rancher's land. On the way across, he finds a woman who claims she is fleeing from the rancher's advances. But he soon learns that she has not told the whole truth.

A retired lawman, now a storekeeper, has lost his nerve after a shooting incident and is now being harassed by a gang of outlaws led by the brother of a man he once killed. The former lawman's daughter refuses to let him put on a gun again or try to fight back.

Bill travels to Ciudad Juarez to accept a job working for a cattleman and his fiancée, only to soon find out he has been set up as the scapegoat in a counterfeiting scheme.

A rancher warns Bill and the railroad workers not to put track down through the land his cattle graze on, even though it is government land. Later he shoots and seriously wounds one of the workers as they are riding in a wagon. But Bill picks up the rancher's son instead, and the workers are in lynching mood.

Bill tries to find out who's been supplying whiskey to railroad workers during their working hours, thus slowing down their progress. He first suspects a lady saloon owner, but it soon becomes apparent she's not the one, and whoever it is is determined to stop the railroad from going through.

Bill's former Civil War commander asks him to take his oldest son with him on the trail to make a better man out of him. Bill agrees to this, but he detects that the son has an intense bitterness toward his father until another man, who served under his father in the war, makes a claim the boy can't allow him to go unchallenged.

Longley has been a special marshal to the Texas town of Rio Nada. The area has been plagued by Mexican bandits who cross the border into the United States and raid the countryside. The gang is led by a mysterious leader known only as "El Sombro". When Longley captures an agent for El Sombro, he hopes to force him to identify the illusive bandit chief.

After acting marshal Bill Longley orders no guns to be worn on the streets of Rio Nada, a local casino owner sends for two notorious gunmen to kill him.

Bill is brought by two bounty hunters to the Governor, who hires him as a marshal to clean up a border area that is being run by an outlaw known as El Sombro. Bill also learns that the sheriff of the main town in the area, his old mentor, has become a drunk and is totally ineffective in handling the situation.

Bill is forced to kill one of the Dawson brothers after a fight when the man draws on him, and then he must contend with three other brothers who vow to kill him.

After Bill, again working with the railroad, turns down a bribe from a landowner to detour the track through his town, the man then forces a doctor to quarantine the railroad workers, falsely claiming a case of cholera.

Bill finds an old prospector almost dead from thirst and brings him into the railroad workers' camp. But men from a rival outfit talk the old man into spreading a story about finding gold, hoping to lure the workers away from their job.

A group of convicts takes over the work train, killing their guards, and hold the entire crew at the construction site hostage. Bill, whom they think they also killed on the train, makes it back to the site and must figure out a way to stop them.

With his job about done, Bill is planning to leave the railroad workers' camp and move on, until a former crewman once fired by MacMorris shows up to make trouble, and Bill learns the man is working as a field agent for the company that the workers hoped to get a new contract from.

Bill saves a government agent from ambush. The agent is carrying a list of landowners who are refusing to pay their taxes and the daughter of one of those landowners, the one whom the attempted killers are working for, is engaged to the governor.

Bill finds a town engulfed by a feud between two ranchers. He also learns that his former commanding officer, now a doctor, has turned to drinking and that a young man blames him for crippling his arm. Bill tries to talk the doctor into staying and not running from the challenges.

A lynch mob wants to hang a young man convicted of killing a family of homesteaders. Bill rides in with a stay of execution from the governor just as the mob is about to break into the jail and the desperate prisoner escapes.