Naked Steel

The plot really goes all over the map in this Laramie story and it starts with Slim Sherman having to calm down a distraught father who for some strange reason feels that John Smith should have acted as a nursemaid to his son who gambled away his end of a cattle drive that Smith ramrodded for several small ranchers. Still as cowboy heroes do John Smith goes to the town he was killed in and finds that the young punk who killed the neighbor's son is a fast gun with a reputation.

For which Smith is grateful for Marshal John Doucette to be backing him up even though Doucette is a friend of the gunman's father who owns the local Ponderosa. Doucette needs help in standing up to the ranch and its hands and Smith stays on as a deputy.

Doucette seems all you would want in square shooting marshal. But Doucette is also got himself involved with golddigging femme fatale saloon girl Gloria Talbott who made several Laramie appearances. It leads to a Greek tragic downfall.

Doucette and Talbott make an interesting pair in this Laramie story.