The Three Mesquiteers was the umbrella title for a series of fifty-one B-westerns released between 1936 and 1943. The films featured the characters Stony Brooke, Tucson Smith and Lullaby Joslin as the threesome, played by many B-western stars of that era. In 1938, John Wayne took over for Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke and starred in eight Mesquiteers films between 1938 and 1939, he was joined by Ray Corrigan as Tucson Smith and Max Terhune as Lullaby Joslin for the first six and Raymond Hatton as Rusty Joslin for the last two. all eight films were directed by George Sherman (Big Jake). John Ford's Stagecoach was perfectly sandwiched between the eight films and John Wayne portrayal of the outlaw gunfighter, The Ringo Kid, made him a superstar and ended Wayne's Stony Brooke run. Livingston was rehired as Brooke and went on to make fourteen more Mesquiteers films and for an incredible total of twenty-nine. In Wyoming Outlaw (the seventh of eight Wayne Mesquiteers films) - Our heroes come to the aid of a modern-day Robin Hood, Will Parker (Donald Barry), who's taking refuge in the mountains of Wyoming. Hotheaded Will, the son of recently fired highway worker Luke Parker (Charles Middleton) is thrown in jail for violating the local game laws. Busting out, Parker scurries to the hills, hotly pursued by the Mesquiteers and the law. Running against time, the threesome try to capture the corrupt politician Balsinger (Leroy Mason) who's responsible for the recession and save Will from the gun-happy policemen and townspeople.