| Year: | September, 1946 |
| Starring: | Roy Rogers |
| Dale Evans | |
| Bob Nolan and Sons of the Pioneers with Pat Brady | |
| Tom London | |
| Highlights: | Gabby has his characteristic gait in his characteristic garb. |
| 'Roll on Texas Moon' musical is Gabby's dream. | |
| Overall rating: | Run-of-the-mill |
| Locations: | River with bridge. Town. Gabby's ranch. |
| Plot: | Cattleman, Gabby Whittaker, is wrongly accused of shooting and killing sheep raiser, Matthew Delaney. |
| Roy, investigator for Whirligig Cattle Syndicate, is sent in to prevent a war between the two factions. | |
| Dale Evans is Delaney's niece and Kate is the ranch operator. | |
| Dale is sick of the conflict and wants to leave but agrees to stay for a month in hopes that things will settle | |
| down by then. | |
| However, on orders from the town lawyer (Cole) , Dale's foreman, Steve, kills Dale's prize lamb. | |
| The lawyer is wanting to keep things stirred up between the cattlemen and sheep raisers so he can | |
| purchase Dale's ranch when she leaves and cover-up the fact that he and Steve were stealing from | |
| from Matthew Delaney and killed him. | |
| Several fist fights ensue at a evening party that was to bring the two groups together. | |
| Roy has to punch-out one of the cattleman. | |
| The sheriff, Tom London, separates the two groups. | |
| Roy and Dale become friends when Roy saves Dale from drowning after a car accident. | |
| Dale hires Roy to work on her ranch. | |
| Some of gunmen hired by Dale's foreman and the cattleman Roy fought at the party try to kill Roy | |
| when he's out on night patrol. | |
| The gunmen kill the cattleman after Roy subdues him. | |
Roy, playing dead, hears the gunmen say that Steve would be glad they'd killed both of them. |
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| Dale decides to sell out to the lawyer but Roy talks her out of it. | |
| Roy examines the car that Dale was driving in the accident and discovers it had been tampered with. | |
| Dale informs the cattlemen posse going after Roy that Steve and Cole are the cause of the conflict. | |
| The gunman are overpowered by the cattlemen's posse and Roy subdues Cole. | |
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| (Gabby remarks about strayed sheep.) | ||
| Gabby: | "Get otta' here. Go on. Scat. Vamoose." | |
| "Ya' dad blasted woolies. Get back on your own range, ya' fourrrr-legged devils." | ||
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| Gabby: | "As fer as I'm concerned, a rattlesnake on his stomach is higher than a giraffe on | |
| a pair of stilts compared to a sheepherder." | ||
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| Gabby: | "Stay away from me ya walkin' lambchop." | |