Three Mounted Men

In the stark, unforgiving confines of a turn-of-the-century penitentiary, a simmering animosity between two hardened convicts, Cheyenne Harry and Buck Masters, metastasizes into an indelible, venomous feud. Their pre-existing antagonism, forged in the crucible of shared incarceration and perhaps differing codes of 'honor' among the condemned, reaches an irrevocable nadir when Buck, succumbing to a morally corrosive proposition, agrees to meticulously falsify the institution's financial ledgers. This insidious pact is not with a fellow inmate seeking illicit gain, but rather with the warden's own progeny—a figure embodying unchecked avarice and a profound disregard for ethical boundaries. Buck's complicity in this bureaucratic corruption, a betrayal not just of abstract principles but of the very framework intended to govern their lives, irrevocably deepens the chasm between him and Harry. It transforms their rivalry from one of mere clashing personalities to a profound ideological clash, pitting a perceived adherence to a rough justice against a mercenary capitulation to systemic deceit, forever altering the landscape of their shared, desolate existence and setting the stage for an inevitable, explosive reckoning.