
Tonto Basin Outlaws
Western
Overview
Number 10 in Monogram's series of 24 "Range Busters" westerns, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, the Range Busters,enlist in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, but are mustered out and sent to Wyoming to clean up a cattle-rustling situation that is affecting the Army's meat supply. Arriving in North Butte, Crash's home town, they all get separate jobs. Jane Blanchard, a reporter from the Denver Daily, also arrives in town in search of a story, and is posing as a waitress. They learn that Jeff Miller is behind the huge combine of rustlers, but Miller also learns that they are the Range Busters and are on his trail. He and his henchmen engage the out-numbered Crash and Alibi in a fight, but Dusty stampedes a large herd of Miller's stolen cattle into the midst of the fray.
Top Cast


Ray Corrigan
Ray Corrigan
Crash Corrigan (as Ray 'Crash' Corrigan)
Ray Corrigan
Crash Corrigan (as Ray 'Crash' Corrigan)


John 'Dusty' King
John 'Dusty' King
'Dusty' King
John 'Dusty' King
'Dusty' King


Max Terhune
Max Terhune
Alibi Terhune (as Max 'Alibi' Terhune)
Max Terhune
Alibi Terhune (as Max 'Alibi' Terhune)
Jan Wiley
Jan Wiley
Jane Blanchard
Jan Wiley
Jane Blanchard


Elmer
Elmer
Elmer Sneezeweed - Alibi's Dummy
Elmer
Elmer Sneezeweed - Alibi's Dummy


Tristram Coffin
Tristram Coffin
Jeff Miller
Tristram Coffin
Jeff Miller


Edmund Cobb
Edmund Cobb
Henchman Jim Stark
Edmund Cobb
Henchman Jim Stark
Ted Mapes
Ted Mapes
Henchman Ricks
Ted Mapes
Henchman Ricks
Art Fowler
Art Fowler
Bill Brown (as Art 'Dustbowl' Fowler)
Art Fowler
Bill Brown (as Art 'Dustbowl' Fowler)
Carl Mathews
Carl Mathews
Henchman Ed
Carl Mathews
Henchman Ed
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