Apache lawman

the long version

Deputy US Marshal Piedmont Kelly must return to Cochise, Arizona Territory, when his old friend Sheriff John Henry Stevens is kidnapped, leaving the town at the mercy of a roving band of outlaws and escaped prisoners. To make matters worse, Cochise's craven mayor has just sworn in the sheriff's replacement - a fast talking braggart whose heroic boasts round Kelly's suspicions. The marshal smells a rat, and so does his newly appointed deputy, Spotted Dog, a Chiricahua Apache, whose uncanny tracking powers have saved Kelly's life on more than one occasion. Together they'll try to sniff out a criminal conspiracy that could only bloom in this lawless desert land.