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In Texas nearby the border of Mexico, border patrolman Mike
Norton mistakenly kills the Mexican cowboy Melquiades Estrada
and buries him in the desert. When Melquiades's body is found
one week later, his best friend, the ranch foreman Pete Perkins,
claims the body to fulfill his promise to bury Melquiades in his
hometown Jimenez and presses the local sheriff Belmont to find
the killer.
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