Western Ranger

What is the name of this old western movie?

I once saw this (1930s? 1940?) movie back in the early 60s on TV. In it, a lone desperado is being pursued across the western plains by the law (sheriff, ranger, I don't recall). Along the way, the desperado, having lost his horse, has to ride a steer in order to continue his escape. Later, after coming across an ailing, isolated, frontier family, he kills the steer for food in order to nurse the family back to health. He later leaves, then is finally apprehended, but is then let go on the spot by the pursuing lawman who himself had earlier run across the aforementioned frontier family who told him of the desperado's kind act.

Any help in tracking down the name of this movie would be appreciated!

You could try looking up John Wayne movies or Tom Mix movies from that era.

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