Jim Newton, a likeable young
man, owns the Broken Wheel Ranch, an outfit handling
wild horses caught on the range and broken for saddle
or harness. Jim and his hard bitten assistant, Pete,
lure and capture a beautiful black stallion they name
Fury. Bart, Jim's bronco-buster, is made to look
ridiculous by Fury and determines to take revenge on
the horse.
Jim brings home from the city a
tough little waif named Joey to give him a chance at
a new life. Joey and Fury strike up a strange
friendship, and when Bart drives the stallion away,
it is Joey who finds the horse, seriously injured,
and brings Jim to the rescue just as Bart is about to
shoot the horse. From that moment, Joey and Fury
become inseparable pals.
2. Killer Stallion
Fury, because of his reputation
of being a wild horse, is accused of jumping his
corral and attacking and raiding neighboring horse
herds. Joey retains his faith in Fury, but Charlie
Stevens feels that Fury should be destroyed.
Unknown to all, Fury is jumping
his corral because of the invasion of the rangeland
by a wild white stallion. Joey sees Fury jump his
corral and follows. By the time he overtakes Fury, he
is near Steven's ranch and sees the white horse open
Steven's corral and steal his horses. When Joey
reports what he has seen, Stevens feels that Joey is
merely trying to protect his horse. Seen by Stevens
and his men in the vicinity, Stevens is certain that
Fury is a killer stallion and must be destroyed. Jim,
with this strong evidence, is compelled to agree
despite Joey's protests.
Later, Joey takes Fury to seek
out the white stallion. The white stallion, seeing
Joey on foot, charges him; but Fury attacks the white
horse and beats him off, just as Jim, Stevens and the
others arrive in search of Joey. Stevens manfully
apologizes to Joey for his suspicions of Fury, and
sets out to capture the real culprit.
3. Joey Goes Hunting
As a reward for good school
work, Joey becomes the proud possesor of a twenty-two
rifle and nothing will do but an immediate tramp into
the woods with Pete as his guardian and instructor in
woodcraft. As it happens, a vicious criminal chooses
the same section of timber to hide in. He comes upon
Pete and Joey and by trickery takes Joey's rifle and
forces him to promise to get a horse and some food
for him. He warns Joey if he comes back with anybody
Pete will die. Joey has difficulty getting away from
Helen and the ranch with the required sandwiches
without imperiling Pete's life by telling what's up.
But he succeeds in bringing Fury back to the woods,
all saddled up and looking meek and mild. When the
convict tries to ride him, Fury handles him as only
Fury can, and Joey completes the capture with his
rifle.
4. The Horse Coper
Joey has trained Fury in a
number of tricks but he is still the only person who
can ride him. Joey and his friend Ted overhear Jim
Newton admitting to Pete that the ranch is in trouble
over a bank note he can't meet. The two boys try to
figure some way they can earn money to help Jim. Joey
gets the idea of putting Fury in a circus that is
traveling through the area. To help them they appeal
to a shrewd and unprincipled horse coper named
Piggott, who already has designs for getting
possession of Fury. Peggott pretends to agree with the boy's plans but tricks them and
tries to make off
with Fury in his horse trailer. Joey manages to hang
onto the trailer and eventually gets the better of
Piggott with Fury's help, while Ted speeds Jim and
the sheriff to the rescue.
5. Scorched Earth
Lack of rain makes fire a severe
threat. Bill, the Forest Ranger, asks Jim to help
patrol. Joey is made a Junior Forest Ranger. They
accompany Bill to a check point where Bill turns back
hunters, including Fred and his son Tom. Tom prevails
upon his father to sneak onto the forest, although it
has been closed. Joey, on Fury, comes across them and
orders them to put out a campfire, citing the reasons
and emphasizing rules of fire prevention. Fred and
Tom leave as Joey puts out the camp fire.
Not long after, Tom and Fred
spot a deer. They fire at it but miss; and Fred
thoughtlessly tosses away his cigarette in disgust.
The ciagarette starts a fire. Joey tries to put it
out, but the winds whip the fire into an inferno,
cutting off Fred, Tom and Joey in different parts of
the Forest . Fred loses Tom and searches for him,
while Joey, on Fury, attempts to find his way out of
the fire.
Jim's attempts to save Joey
fail. The fire destroys the Broken Wheel Ranch while
in the heart of the fire, Joey keeps seeking his way
out. Tom is pinned down by a fallen limb. Fred fights
his way out of the forest hysterical about his boy.
Nothing can be done. Suddenly Joey on Fury, comes
across Tom, and Joey, with Fury's aid, frees the boy.
Fury carries them both to safety.
6. Joey's Dame Trouble
A beautiful white mare, captured
by Jim, who intends to gentle her and present her to
Helen, Joey's teacher, becomes a hated object to
Joey, because, for the first time in their
relationship, Fury ignores everyone else. Inflamed by
jealousy, Joey turns the mare back on the range. Jim
lets him have both barrels in the first real anger he
has ever shown against Joey. Early next morning Joey
follows Fury out on the range to win the white mare
back, and exposes himself to danger from the new and
savage leader of the wild herd. Jim, Pete and Helen
arrive in time to see Fury drive off the savage
stallion and to receive the mare back at Joey's
hands. Joey promises never to let jealousy sway him
again.
7. Joey And The Gypsies
Mack, foreman of a neighboring
ranch, and his partner Ace, have been stealing horses
from various ranches. They have worked it so that
suspicion points to gypsies camped on the rangeland
awaiting the opening of a fair in the nearby town.
Jim tries to prevent the ranchers from driving the gypsies off by violence, pointing out that these
people have the same rights as anyone else. Mack
decides to steal Fury, not only because Fury is
valuable, but also to convince Jim that the gypsies
are the rustlers. They take Fury while Joey and
Karol, a gypsy boy, are looking for Indian
arrowheads. To place further suspicion on the
gypsies, Mack and Ace purloin a medallion from Josef,
Karol's father, and plant it with some stolen horses
in the canyon. Mack reports finding the stolen horses
and another rancher discovers the medallion when they
go after the horses. The sheriff arrests Josef and
his group. Jim, Pete and Joey continue their search
for Fury, who is captive in a hidden canyon. Joey,
off by himself, discovers Fury. He urges Fury to run.
Mack and Ace catch Joey but Fury turns on them and
prevents them from escaping until Jim and Pete
arrive.
8. Joey Saves The Day
Jim Newton proves himself a fit
guardian of little Joey when welfare workers visit
the ranch in the episode. While the investigators
check on Joey's progress, $20 dollars is reported
stolen and Joey is suspected. But Jim's faith in his
ward is rewarded when inquiry reveals who really took
the money - and why.
9. Joey's Father
A sudden threat to Joey's
happiness appears in the convincing and fully
documented form of a man representing himself as
Joseph Clark, Senior, Joey's supposedly dead father
who had deserted Joey in his infancy. He is armed
with a court order requiring Jim Newton to return
Joey to his custody. Joey is so upset that Jim and
Helen prevail on Clark to stay a few days and try to
convince Joey that having a real father is a very
fine thing. Just as Joey is reconciling himself to
leave Broken Wheel Ranch, the real nature of the
intruder's visit is revealed as a plot between two
crooks to sell the supposed father's rights to Jim
Newton for $10,000. Carter, the crook passing as
Joey's father with forged and stolen papers, is
exposed to Jim in a phone call to the County Court
House. He and his confederate attempt to escape. Joey
and Fury, involved in their getaway plans, upset them
in an exciting finish that ends with Jim and Pete
bulldogging and hogtying the two reprobates. Joey
blissfully returns to ranch life and his pal Fury.
10. Ghost Town
Joey and his pal, Frankie, love
to visit Windy, who claims he is the marshal and
mayor of a ghost town. He fills the boys full of
entertaining tall tales. An item in the newspaper about a bank robbery leads him to tell a tale of
treasure buried somewhere in the ghost town. The boys
start a hunt and find a bag full of paper money which
Windy recognizes as the loot from the bank stick-up he
has just read about in the papers. He sends the boys
for the sheriff.
The hoodlums rendezvous and
decide to get the money they have hidden. Finding the
money gone, they worry until Windy walks in. While
Windy denies knowledge of the money, Joey and
Frankie return and blurt out that the sheriff is on
his way. Unknown to them, however, the sheriff thinks
this is one of Windy's tall tales. The bandits grab
the boys and Windy promises them the money if they
will let the boys go. Windy, with the aid of Joey and
Frankie, manages to outwit the hoodlums, while Fury
races away and brings back Jim and Pete. The captive
bandits are taken away. Windy is a hero, who objects
to publicity for he fears it will bring people to his
beloved ghost town.
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