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The Black Whip

    In 1889 the Idaho territory is struggling mightily towards statehood, aided by the Crescent City Herald run by Randolph "Randy" Meridith and his sister Barbara Meridith. But one man doesn’t want the territory to become a state: Allen Hammond, who owns Crescent City's telegraph and mail office. Hammond’s hired guns and thugs run new settlers out of the territory, because the newcomers will vote for statehood and disrupt Hammond’s criminal activities. Only the Black Whip stands between Hammond and his goal. Washington, at the behest of the Crescent City Citizens’ Council, has sent in Vic Gordon, an undercover agent posing as a railroad surveyor. Barbara goes to a nearby train station to fetch Judge Bradley, a federal officer assigned to investigate the case, to Crescent City. On the Citizens’ Council, Allen Hammond learns of this plan and orders his thugs to capture or kill Judge Bradley. But the crooks encounter unexpected trouble in the form of Vic Gordon and the Black Whip! The two drive off Hammond’s men, but not before mortally wounding Bradley and the Black Whip! With his dying breath Bradley tells Barbara Meridith that Vic is really a secret agent for the Federal Government and then deputizes Barbara to help Vic in his mission. Barbara returns the lifeless Bradley to town and heads back to her ranch to confer with her brother Randy. But she discovers him dead in the basement hideout of the Black Whip! Now Barbara must avenge her dead brother as the Black Whip! Through many adventures the Black Whip and Vic Gordon eventually discover that Hammond is the criminal mastermind behind all their troubles! At one point Vic poses as the Black Whip to deceive Hammond who suspects Barbara of being masked avenger.  Hammond dies, when he follows the Black Whip back to her lair and is trampled by her trusted steed Midnight. So ends the criminal career of Allen Hammond, while the Black Whip lives on to fight injustice in the new state of Idaho!

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Our information is taken from Zorro's Black Whip, a 1944 Republic Pictures movie serial in 12 chapters.

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