Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders #1

When Windy Wales's loose tongue and a mail-order skyrocket inadvertently tip off a pair of ruthless payroll thieves, Bobby Benson and his friend find themselves in the crooks' clutches—with only Windy's wits and a clever plan involving the rocket as a signal to call for help from the B-Bar-B ranch. Can Windy stay one step ahead of his captors, or will the thieves silence him before backup arrives?

When a drifter named Herb Brazos joins the B-Bar-B crew during roundup season, he's really after the ranch's payroll—but his scheme gets interrupted, and he flees south of the border to reconnect with an old partner, Pete Jarvis. The two cook up a con involving forged Spanish land grants to extort ranches, and it works perfectly until Bobby Benson stumbles onto the key words hidden in the grant documents and brings in the F.B.I. As the crooks scramble to make their escape with stolen money, they head back to the B-Bar-B for one last score—only to find Windy Wales waiting with a plan of his own.

When a band of ruthless criminals—led by the brutal Buck Booley—hole up in a remote hideout after a daring bank robbery, they have no idea they've crossed paths with the Lemonade Kid, a lightning-fast gunslinger working undercover on the B-Bar-B ranch. As the Kid closes in on their hideout with help from his trusted companion Harka, he'll need every ounce of skill and cunning to outwit Booley, his enforcer Finger, and their gun-happy gang. It's a showdown brewing in the Texas badlands, where only the fastest draw will walk away.