Crack Western #74

When Arizona Raines and his partner Spurs discover an escaped prisoner named Dan Nolan hiding near their camp, they choose to hear him out—and what Dan tells them about his frame-up convinces them the warden himself is the real criminal. To expose Warden Carse's corruption, Arizona hatches a daring plan: stage a fake gold shipment through Yucca Canyon and let the warden's greed trap him. Now the three of them are on the run from the law, racing to prove their innocence before the noose tightens.

Two-Gun Lil Peters arrives in the frontier town of Paradise hoping for a quiet look around, but instead gets mistaken for a dancing girl named Lulu and caught up in the plans of the Barker outlaw gang—who intend to rob the Shelton Bank and don't know her real identity. Trapped between the outlaws' guns and her own need to warn the law, Lil must figure out how to stop the heist before the scheme spins completely out of control.

Johnny Lash, a drifting stranger, stumbles into a deadly ambush while seeking water—a bushwhacking that awakens the Whip and sets him against Sam Bigler, a ruthless gunslinger who's muscled his way into control of Cougar Pass and is now squeezing the valley ranches. With Bigler's gang dug in at the Silver Star Casino and the law too distant to help, the Whip rides into town to settle accounts and free the ranchers from Bigler's iron grip.

Marshal Bob Allen faces down Owl Egan, a ruthless saloon owner who's brought his crooked operation and hired guns to town, refusing to run an honest establishment. When Egan challenges Allen to a gunfight in the darkened saloon after sundown—confident his legendary night vision will give him the edge—the marshal accepts, knowing he'll need every ounce of grit to survive. This 1951 western shows what happens when a lawman determined to clean up his town meets a criminal who thinks the darkness is his greatest weapon.