Fuzzy(Al St. John) is unusually useless to Billy Carson in this PRC film of the Billy the Kid series of B westerns. After demonstrating how not to tie down a calf, in a humorous scene, he decided to give up cow punching, and try his hand at running a general store. He discovered that this has its problems too. For one thing, he wasn't expecting the post office to be housed in his store. Among other things, he wasn't expecting to encounter the rat traps that the postmistress(Marin Sais, as Ma) set around her area. They had the occasional verbal fights. However, she was a physically strong woman, thus was useful in lifting heavy items that Fuzzy couldn't handle. Soon a physical fight between several men broke out in his store, and he got involved in trying to push them out to prevent destroying things. Bythe way,as a poor cowpoke, where did he get the money to start his store?? Perhaps he had saved some gold dust from a previous episode? Equally problematic was the fact that nearly all his customers were buying on credit, either because their cattle had been stolen or their crops weren't ready for harvest. This meant that Fuzzy had little cashflow to pay his supplier bills. If their crops failed, Fuzzy's store too would fail.........Meanwhile, when not standing around gabbing with Fuzzy, Billy is getting nosey about why cattle are disappearing, and why the ranchers and dirt farmers hate each other. The ranchers, such as Dale Kirby(Mady Lawrence) blame the farmers, without proof, because rustling seldom happened before they started showing up. Eventually, Billy figures out that the real rustlers are henchmen of the town money lender Steve Kinney(Jack Ingram). His scheme is to rustle some cattle, causing the rancher to come to him for money to make up the loss. He would put a lien on their property, and eventually he would foreclose on their property. (What scheme he had to make the dirt farmers lose their crops is not dealt with). This is a familiar plot in this film series...... Rancher Dale Kirby is incensed by Billy's persistent delving into the question of who is actually doing the rustling, and how to eliminate the animosity between the ranchers and farmers. She is sure who is doing the rustling, although they haven't been caught red handed. It's never established why Steve Kinney started his rustling when the dirt farmers began showing up. Perhaps he felt he needed them as a scapegoat. Or perhaps he didn't arrive in town until they did?........Farmer Dan Harper(Karl Hackett) is arrested on suspicion of rustling cattle, without proof. and put in jail. Steve and chief henchman Mort(Charles King) decide to break Dan out of jail. They hope the farmers will think the ranchers did it to possibly lynch him, while the ranchers will think the farmers did it to free their fellow farmer. This is, in fact , what happens. Meanwhile, Billy goes looking for where they took Dan. He meets one of Steve's men on the trail and bullies him into telling where Dan is being kept. Upon arriving at the old miner's shack, Billy burst through the door, ready for a fist fight, but not ready for a gun response. He lucked out, and beat up Mort and another henchman((John Caron, as Bart) who was recuperating from a bullet wound. He untied Dan and took him to town(along with 3 other riders whose identities I'm not sure of, but probably included Mort and Bart). Seeing Dan diffused the immediate problem that the ranchers were about to attack a group of farmers outside of Fuzzy's store. Sizing up the situation, Steve prepared to leave town, stuffing his money and lending notes in a bag, but running into Billy at the door. Time for the formulistic fight to the finish, then time for Dale to apologize to Billy for being so unappreciative.....The main plus for this film is Fuzzy's more than usual antics. The story is very familiar to anyone who has seen a few films in this series, and leaves a number of loose ends.
