It's amazing how many men take a dislike to Cheyenne Bodie the minute they lay eyes on him. And how often they look like Leo Gordon. Also, how they usually lose in a fistfight with the Big Guy unless they gang up on him at least three to one or conk him on the head first. But Cheyenne never backs down in the face of gross injustice, so in this episode we know he's going to pursue the truth no matter what he has to go through to get at it, even if it means taking on the judge who rules the town with an iron fist (somewhat softened by his ambitious but devoted wife).
Prairie Springs is friendly enough until the judge's ranch foreman, MacDonald (Gordon), and his roughneck cohorts enter the picture, interrupting Cheyenne's dinner with overt threats and then soon after strong-arming him out of town, incurring a debt that we have no doubt will be repaid within the next 50 minutes. When he seeks retribution, it's Bodie who ends up in jail. There's a trial presided over by the same town baron judge that looks all but a done deal until an upstanding citizen comes forward to clear Cheyenne of all wrongdoing.
That's only the beginning of the intrigue, because the judge's wife is harboring a secret that she'll go to almost any lengths to conceal. In the end, Cheyenne gets the justice he's looking for, MacDonald gets what's coming to him, and the mystery of the judge's wife is laid to rest. "We'll never forget you, Cheyenne," she says, as he prepares to ride out of their lives after assuring them that their secret is safe with him. Thus is cemented Cheyenne Bodie's reputation as possibly the most honorable cowboy who ever roamed the West.
Prairie Springs is friendly enough until the judge's ranch foreman, MacDonald (Gordon), and his roughneck cohorts enter the picture, interrupting Cheyenne's dinner with overt threats and then soon after strong-arming him out of town, incurring a debt that we have no doubt will be repaid within the next 50 minutes. When he seeks retribution, it's Bodie who ends up in jail. There's a trial presided over by the same town baron judge that looks all but a done deal until an upstanding citizen comes forward to clear Cheyenne of all wrongdoing.
That's only the beginning of the intrigue, because the judge's wife is harboring a secret that she'll go to almost any lengths to conceal. In the end, Cheyenne gets the justice he's looking for, MacDonald gets what's coming to him, and the mystery of the judge's wife is laid to rest. "We'll never forget you, Cheyenne," she says, as he prepares to ride out of their lives after assuring them that their secret is safe with him. Thus is cemented Cheyenne Bodie's reputation as possibly the most honorable cowboy who ever roamed the West.
