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Speedy Meade Synopsis

After his assistant, Bud Lester, is killed, Texas Ranger Speedy Meade bids farewell to his girl friend, convent student Mary Dillman, and sets out to break up a gang of cattle thieves operating on the border. After arriving at the scene, Speedy dons different disguises, including that of a derelict bartender and an old man selling stolen cattle. Speedy obtains valuable information and learns that the leader of the band is Henry Dillman, Mary's father. Mary arrives and complicates Speedy's plans. He trails the gang to their secret rendezvous, but Mary causes him to lose his advantage and he is captured, bound, and gagged. Dillman is accused by the others in the gang of having betrayed them to the ranger. A fight ensues in which Dillman is shot and Mary is seized by a bandit. Speedy frees himself and knocks out Mary's assailant. Dillman confesses he is not really Mary's father, and Mary goes off with Speedy.

Sandy Burke of the U-Bar-U Synopsis

After Sandy Burke rescues orphaned seven-year-old Dolly Morgan from Jim Diggs, who gunned down her father, he gives her to the Widow Mackey to rear. Learning that the widow's mortgage soon is due to Digg's partner, Lafe Hinton, Sandy goes to rancher Jeff Kirby for a job, but is mistaken for desperado Slim Dillon, and captured by Kirby's daughter Molly. After Sandy proves his innocence, he masquerades as Dillon and robs a stagecoach to help the widow. Sandy wins the mortgage money playing poker with Hinton. Kirby hires Sandy to stop the thieves rustling his prize steers. Sandy suspects Diggs and Hinton, and after he rescues Molly from Diggs, he finds a letter from a packing firm which proves his suspicions. Diggs recaptures Molly, and Sandy, pursuing, falls into Diggs' trap. As Diggs prepares to brand Sandy's bare back, Molly's pleas give Sandy the opportunity to pry loose. After capturing Diggs, Sandy, who loves Molly but thinks that she loves another, says goodbye. Molly then takes his revolvers and orders him to put his hands up and around her.