Hec Ramsey

An aging lawman in the turn-of-the century West finds himself out of step with the times and reluctantly accepts a job as a deputy to an inexperienced college-educated Police Chief in Oklahoma. He uses his brain and primitive beginnings of early-day criminal science to solve crimes.

Hec sets out to clear innocent Indians and catch the real killers of three ranchers. Color blindness is a strange key to solving the mystery.

Hec hunts the killers of his fiancee, Norma Muldoon and her son Andy during a stagecoach robbery. His chief suspect is the son of an old friend and fellow lawman.

A crime syndicate comes to town and are victimizing oildrillers who are tricked into accepting loans from the syndicate.

A hotheaded young man comes to town looking for his father, who deserted he and his mother many years before. When the father turns up dead Hec tries to prove that the young man is not guilty.