Bound Boy

This is another story with a subtext. Boys being used as slave labour.

Jamie is an orphan who has ran away from his ranch and travelled far to get away.

Aben Burke is the rancher who comes looking for Jamie. Aben tells Johnny Ringo that the local orphans are by law bound to him as they have nowhere to go.

Burke claims to look after the boys well and Johnny feels he has no option but return Jamie to Burke.

Of course it turns out that Aben Burke bullies the kids and uses them as slave labour.

A simple story that is done rather well. I thought more could had been done with the final shootout. It just lacked dramatic tension.