Bill Boyd Western #16

In the dusty aftermath of a brutal tornado, Jo and her younger siblings are left orphaned and taken in by Cy, the local rancher. With the kids’ parents gone, Cy sees a chance to claim their family ranch—and when the older brother suddenly returns, the tension on the spread begins to rise.

A stonecutter makes a costly error when spelling a deceased foreman's name on his tombstone, turning a solemn moment into an unintended punchline in this quick western humor bit from Bill Boyd Western #16.

Windy loves playing practical jokes on everyone around him—gluing soup, spreading itching powder, even pouring tar on poor Gus Hart's head—so when Jack finally gets his chance, he decides to teach the prankster a lesson using a game called "Buzzing the Bee." What starts as Jack's clever setup for payback turns into a showdown that leaves Windy reconsidering whether his beloved jokes are quite as funny when the tables are turned.

When Crowbait stumbles upon a murder in the Tall Oaks County hills, he becomes a dangerous witness to a scheme involving Crown and the crooked hotel owner Willis. The two conspirators try a sinister game of intimidation to silence him, but they haven't counted on Bill Boyd and his horse Midnite arriving in town just in time to uncover the full plot and bring the murderers to justice.

Bill Boyd stumbles upon a puzzling string of cattle rustlings at the border—the herds vanish without leaving a single hoofprint, baffling both him and the Sheriff. When Boyd spots mysterious shipments of heavy rugs arriving in town, he pieces together a clever scheme and stakes out Todd Dawson's ranch to catch the rustlers in action. It's a clever plot with a fatal flaw that proves no outlaw's plan is foolproof.