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Pete Carter (Leo Gordon), Billy Hooter (Mike Ragan), and Matt Williams (Jamie Forster) are prospecting for silver. Matt is killed when they are ambushed by Indians. As Pete and Billy are digging his grave, they find a huge deposit of silver. Everyone in Tombstone is excited, but then Matt's son Ollie (Bing Russell) and his wife Beth (Pamela Duncan) arrive and want Matt's share as his heirs. Pete especially is determined that it will be only a two way split. The townspeople side with Ollie and Beth and things boil over when Pete wounds Ollie in a saloon gunfight. Clay saves Pete from being lynched but it's still an explosive situation. How can Clay solve this one fairly? It's going to take some legal research to do that. A good episode.

Drifting town tamer Jake Hoyt saves Clay from being shot in the back in Radcliffe's saloon. Clay is appreciative, but concerned about Hoyt's methods. The shady Radcliffe would like to see Hoyt installed as sheriff in order to be able to control the law in Tombstone. But Hoyt proves to be a merciless killer with no remorse about it. Then Hoyt mistakes an innocent citizen for a wanted outlaw and shoots him in the back. Now it's Clay vs Hoyt in a head to head shootout. Watch near the end of the episode for Ed Nelson in a brief scene as a cowboy. A good episode.

I just watched Dixie (1924) on YouTube. The entire 24 minute short silent film is available there. It begins in the last months of 1864 with the Allen family as Mrs Allen deals with slaves expecting freedom and all kinds of shortages caused by the war. Her husband and sons are all in the army. Then the film goes ahead six months and Lee's surrender at Appomattox is faithfully recreated. The details of the event are filmed as though the camera was actually there recording it live. The civilian clothing and military uniforms are historically correct. Check out Dixie (1924) if you can. It's a brilliant retelling of the last days of the Civil War.