In a secret meeting with Whip and Texas, Bannon tells them about the book, which is locked in Taggert's safe. Later, while Bannon signs a receipt book for the $7,000 paid by Taggert, he notices that it contains a list of the payoffs that could be used as evidence against the gang. Meanwhile, Utah and Taggert plan to ambush Mason for the $10,000 reward. Spangles is indignant that she has sold half her business to free a stranger from jail, but she does not reveal Whip's identity to Taggert, for fear that Whip will be killed. When Spangles fails to recognize him, Whip claims to have met Mason at the penitentiary. After they free Whip from the jail, Bannon, Utah and Mike bring him to Spangles in her office. Meanwhile, Whip, who has arranged to be arrested by local lawmen, is being held in a nearby jail cell. When Spangles agrees to the deal, Taggert orders Utah and his henchman Mike to help Bannon find Mason. While Spangles is considering the offer with Bannon, Taggert enters the office and offers to give Spangles, who only has $5,000, the additional money she needs in trade for part-ownership in the Golden Ace. Knowing that Taggert will eavesdrop on them, Bannon loudly offers to find Mason for her if Spangles will pay him $12,000, which is $2,000 more than the reward offered. After the local newspaper reports that Mason has escaped from the penitentiary and a reward is offered for his capture, Bannon goes to talk to Golden Ace Saloon owner Spangles Calhoun, who is also Mason's girlfriend. Because Mason was captured three years earlier, and the Taggert gang have only been in Copper City for a year, Whip assumes they will not know that he is an imposter. He will pose as Mason and then post the reward for his own capture to lure the gang into a trap. Using an old $10,000 dead or alive reward poster for Alan Mason, a Golden Ace bartender who was unjustly convicted, Whip devises a plan. Marshal Whip Wilson and his cohorts, Texas and Jim Bannon, suspect the Taggert gang of the crime, they need evidence for a conviction. Outlaw Utah Granite, part of the Taggert gang based in Copper City, has been breaking fellow outlaws out of jail, then killing them and collecting on the "dead or alive" rewards offered.
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