Billy the Kid Outlawed (1940)

In the first of the six films Bob Steele made in PRCs Billy the Kid series gun law rules in Lincoln County New Mexico in 1972 where Sam Daly and Pete Morgan operate a general store Daly expects to be elected sheriff and he and Morgan intend to bring off a final big coup and then disappear To further their plans they have local ranchers such as the Bennett brothers killed Billy Bonney and his friends Fuzzy Jones and Jeff Travis driving a cattle herd and friends of the Bennettsengage in a gun battle with the killers that frightens the stage horses Billy gives chase and rescues Judge Fitzgerald and his daughter Molly The judge has been sent by Washingtons Department of Justice to take over the law enforcement in Lincoln County but is murdered by the DalyMorgan henchman Sheriff Long deputizes Billy and his friends to bring in the killers but Daly is elected sheriff and promptly brands Billy Jeff and Fuzzy as outlaws Billy now known as Billy the Kid retaliates by