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The Mysterious Rider illustrated Zane Grey

The Mysterious Rider is a 1938 American Western film directed by Lesley Slander and starring Douglass Dumile, Sidney Toler, and Russell Hayden. In the Arizona desert in the late 1800s, famed outlaw Pecos Bill and his sidekick Frosty Kilburn hold up a stagecoach. During the raid, Bill takes money from a wealthy passenger and gives it to a poor woman passenger, then rides away. After settling in, Ben learns that 200 head of cattle have been stolen, and that Beclouds seems uninterested in finding the thieves. Soon, beclouds is gunned down in cold blood. Jack goes after Cap to avenge his father's death, and is himself soon killed. Ben, Wills, and Frosty go after Cap and they meet in a fierce gunfight.