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Maitland and Clegg. They are swiftly sentenced to hang, but Nell has taken a great liking to Maitland and persuades Sheriff Massey to do one right thing
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Maitland and Clegg infiltrate Clarkβs shady business by taking jobs at his store. Meanwhile, he goes to work for defiant competing merchant Elam King and his niece Priscilla. After gaining their trust, Devlin learns that King has a secret wagon train of goods, including weapons, coming in
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congregation (who have also been robbed), and are given spare clothing. Devlin decides it would be a good idea to pretend to be
Brethren while in town. They quickly connect the robbers, and later the defective ammunition, to Ep Clark. Clark controls the mayor and the sheriff, and has his gang waylay
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Captain Buck Devlin, and cavalry troopers
Sergeant John Maitland and Private Wilbur Clegg, recently mustered out of the army, head to Devlin's brother's homestead to settle down. They arrived just in time to drive off an Indian attack, but are too late to save his brother. Faulty ammunition cost him
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in his life and free the prisoners; unfortunately, he is shot in the back by one of Clark's men. Nell then gets
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