Blazing Western #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeA bushwhacker steals an insurance policy from a sheriff and recruits outlaw Jase Fowler to help him take over Snake City by force. Jase and his crew embark on a campaign of killings and robberies across the territory, but their rampage attracts the attention of federal troops sent to restore order. After intense conflict, a gritty gunslinger named Barker emerges as a hired hand, ultimately confronting Jase's gang; Barker proves instrumental in breaking up the outlaw operation and finds unexpected redemption and peace working as a ranch hand, finally having found a home where he can escape his violent past.
The Utah Kid rides unarmed into Chieftain Sashatu's stronghold, convinced that words can broker peace in a brutal frontier war that's devastated the Southwest. When Sashatu agrees to a thirty-day truce, an unlikely friendship blooms—but those who profit from conflict have other plans. Can the Kid's faith in understanding survive those determined to shatter the fragile peace?
When Sheriff Larson is ambushed and robbed of a crucial government warrant, Dade McQueen and his Indian companion Running Bear learn that the stolen document is now in the hands of the outlaw Jase Fowler—who's using it to consolidate control over Snake City and threaten to expose the lawless town to federal authorities unless the criminals fall in line. Racing against time and outnumbered in outlaw territory, the two must find a way to recover the warrant and bring justice to a town the law is powerless to enter.
When a cavalry lieutenant spares the life of a wounded Cree brave despite his troopers' bloodlust, he sets in motion a chain of events that tests the limits of mercy and trust across the frontier. As the small group journeys north through hostile desert to rendezvous with the general, resentment builds among the soldiers—and the Indian watches from the shadows, bound by codes of his own people. "Redskin Justice" explores what happens when two societies' laws collide, and whether one man's compassion can bridge the divide.
A young man named Barker dreams of becoming a gunfighter until a stranger tells him the cautionary tale of a gunslinger who took up arms to defend homesteaders against ruthless cattlemen in Wyoming territory. When Barker finally straps on a gun to settle the score with his tormentors, he discovers that living by the gun comes with a price that no amount of respect or fear can repay. This morality tale explores what it truly means to wear the mark of a gunfighter.
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Reprinted in Westerner #17 (1964)
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