 In this remake of "Sheriff of Tombstone-1941", easily one of the best of all Roy Rogers  movies, which was also remade again in 1957 as "Thunder Over Arizona" with Skip Homeier and making it easily one of the worse westerns ever to carry the Republic logo (even the great Joe Kane couldn t do much with Skip as the lead), this one falls smack in the middle both in release-and-interest order. Monte Hale (Monte Hale), accompanied by Chuck Waggoner (Paul Hurst), is on his way to Gunnison, California to visit an uncle when the two pals find an unconscious rider whom they identify, by a telegram in his pocket, as the notorious outlaw, Gunsmoke Lowry (Daniel M. Sheridan, making a poor substitute for Harry Woods in the original version). The wire also reveals that Gunsmoke has been summoned to Gunnison by town mayor Lance Dawson (Douglas Evans). Monte keeps the telegram, continues on to town and, there, meets Joyce Mason (Adrian Booth, long past her Lorna Gray credits) who tells him that his uncle was killed while organizing the ranchers and miners against the ruthless, crooked and dangerous Dawson. Monte visits Dawson, shows him the telegram and Dawson, thinking he is Gunsmoke, makes him town marshal. Monte is told his first job is to run old Granny Mason (Sarah Edwards) off her mining claim. Joyce and Granny convince Monte that Dawson is trying to steal the claim. Judd Babbitt (Tristram Coffin), with an alter identity of Jim Requa, and the secret power behind Dawson, tries vainly to kill Monte after the real Gunsmoke Lowry appears and exposes him. Monte and Chuck take refuge in Joyce s dress shop. The only way Granny Mason can keep her mine out of the hands of Dawson is to pay her taxes at the county seat, and Monte acts as a decoy to draw them off the outlaw gang while Joyce rides there with the tax money.