Cowboy Western #67

When a stranger defies Wild Bill Hickok's gun ban in Hays City, the ensuing conflict draws the famous frontier marshal into the treacherous Badlands to confront a ruthless rustling operation led by "Big Mike" Murdock. Hickok devises a daring undercover plan to infiltrate the outlaw gang and stop them from driving away a stolen herd—but his old nemesis Trask threatens to expose him before the trap can spring.

When an urgent telegram summons Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles to the rough mining town of Diggerstown, they arrive dressed in silk-fringed formal wear—a deliberate choice that makes them targets for mockery from the local toughs led by the ruthless Jug McGuire. Beneath the fancy duds lies hard steel, and Wild Bill is ready to prove that Diggerstown's real problem isn't the rowdy gang, but the corrupt power behind them. As tensions boil over into action, these two lawmen show the town exactly what happens when you mistake their frills for weakness.

When four armed outlaws strike the Silver Creek bank, the gang's leader Mike Taylor is stunned to discover that the young sheriff standing against them is his own half-brother Dan—the very man who warned him three days earlier to abandon the robbery and go straight. As the outlaws make their stand against the lawman, Mike Taylor learns the hard way that choosing crime means becoming marked men, with the law always on their trail.

Wild Bill Hickok watches helplessly as a mysterious gunslinger called Ray Barr defeats Kid Cotton in a lightning-fast duel in front of a dozen witnesses—but something about the outcome troubles the marshal. When Barr boasts of his invincibility and his string of easy victories, Hickok begins to suspect there's more to the stranger's success than pure speed and skill. As tensions rise in town, the marshal must uncover the truth behind the so-called king of the badlands before his reign of unchallenged gunplay claims another victim.

Wild Bill Hickok and his partner Jingles face a town turned against them after a fatal gunfight leaves the young, popular Curly Ames dead—and the townsfolk demand the lawmen hang up their guns or face a bounty from every outlaw they've ever crossed. When a mysterious ambush sparks new violence, Hickok and Jingles must navigate a web of suspicion, hired guns, and deadly challenges to prove their worth and survive.

Duncan Meade, an Indian scout loyal to both his people and the frontier, finds himself caught between duty and friendship when a paymaster robbery is pinned on Neapol, his Sioux blood brother. Racing to prove Neapol's innocence before suspicion ignites a war between the tribes and the cavalry, Meade must uncover who really orchestrated the theft and gunned down the escort sergeant. Trust, deception, and the fragile peace of the frontier hang in the balance.

Wild Bill Hickok discovers that the outlaw Gil Burke is behind a scheme to extort the local ranchers by threatening to dam up their water supply—and when the marshal catches Burke's men wrecking the town newspaper office to silence the editor's calls for legal action, a tense confrontation erupts on Showdown Street. With law and order hanging in the balance, Hickok must face down Burke and his gang to restore justice to Hays City.

When Marshal Wild Bill Hickok studies the latest wanted posters, a young arrival in Hays City strikes him as familiar—but not for the reasons the fugitive might hope. A sharp-eyed lawman and a few telltale details that a disguise can't quite hide set the stage for justice in this frontier showdown.

Bill Cowell launches his newspaper the Bulletin in Deep River with grand ideals about exposing corruption, but when the ruthless land grabber Hague Anson intimidates him with gunfire, Cowell finds himself paralyzed by fear—until Anson's goons destroy his printing press, forcing the editor to confront what kind of man he really is. With newfound resolve and a shotgun in hand, Cowell stands up to Anson and learns that sometimes the pen needs a little firepower behind it in the Old West.

When Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles arrive in Clear River to take the marshal's job, businessman Huey Fogg—who views them as trigger-happy gunslingers unfit for office—hatches a scheme to discredit them before they can be sworn in. Fogg uses his criminal connections and influence to frame Hickok for a bank robbery, but his plan to loot the town's businesses while the lawman sits in jail sets the stage for his own undoing.