Captives of the Desert

While attempting to save an Indian child, rugged John Curry is injured, when he is thrown from his horse. He is rescued by a woman whose drunken, jealous and scheming husband, Wilbur Newton, becomes his deadly enemy; Wilbur fears Curry will try to stop an ingenious scheme that threatens the desert Indians. unless Curry rides again, three people will die - and one of them is Curry! John Curry is a cowboy in the Arizona desert that has the misfortune to fall in love with a married woman, Mary Newman and he keeps his distance, when he learns her husband is a shiftless drunkard, involved in the illegal sale of watered down alcohol to the Indians. John's biggest concern is that Mary will be hurt, when she discovers what her husband is up to, or if he is arrested. Wilbur Newman leaves his wife, but John's chance to be with Mary still is not to be .. even though Mary and Wilbur's marriage is a bad and unhappy one, she looks for his return to her life. Her father's death and her inheritance complicate matters even more; in this story, the road to a happy ending, faces many rocky twists and turns.