Cheyenne Kid #29

The Cheyenne Kid sits down for a high-stakes poker game and quickly realizes he's being fleeced by card cheats named Birdsell and Zalangi—but before he can expose them, he's arrested and tossed in jail. Locked up alongside other victims of the same con, the Kid begins piecing together a darker scheme: the two swindlers may have done far worse than just cheating at cards to claim the local ranch they now control.

The Cheyenne Kid pursues a horse thief onto the Sioux reservation and catches him, but not before an old squaw curses him with a string of misfortunes—spoiled food, defeated enemies, and everything crumbling at his touch. Riding into town to arrest a killer named Fargo Cole on a federal warrant, the Cheyenne Kid finds the curse seemingly coming true as disaster after disaster strikes during the confrontation. What at first looks like bad luck may be something far more clever working in his favor.

A young ranch-hand named Nick spends eight months mastering his dead brother Jerry's worn gun, determined to face the killer Buzz Gannett and avenge his death. When Nick finally confronts Gannett in town with gun drawn, he discovers the weapon has its own say in what happens next.

Outnumbered and outgunned, the Cheyenne Kid must protect a vital buffalo herd from white hunters who threaten to slaughter it—and the tribe that depends on it for survival. Caught between his tribal heritage and the law, he devises a cunning plan to stop the poachers and deliver justice without triggering a military response. A tense battle of wits on the prairie tests whether the Kid's resourcefulness can outmatch the hunters' firepower.