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(why vote?)   powered by AFI  Henry Hardison, an unscrupulous
Silver Bend businessman, offers to buy John Avery's ranch,
claiming that he wants to turn the property into a reservoir for
a power project. After Avery, who opposes the project, rejects
Hardison's offer, the two men leave on the next stagecoach. Once
outside of town, Hardison's men ambush the stage, while inside
the coach, Hardison pulls a gun and shoots Avery. Steve Ramsey,
a surveyor hired by Avery, witnesses the ambush and drives off
the attackers. Feigning a fear of weapons and violence, Hardison
pretends to be an innocent victim of the outlaws. However, when
the stage returns to River Bend, Smiley Burnette, the local
newspaper publisher, accuses Hardison of engineering Avery's
murder. In his defens