Crack Western #75

Arizona Raines and his young partner Spurs barely escape a stampede that destroys their camp, but when they help rancher Nita Duncan recover her scattered herd, they uncover a scheme far darker than accident—one involving her unscrupulous foreman Red Hager and the ruthless Buck Stevens, who'll stop at nothing to seize control of the Cross D ranch. As Arizona works to prove the stampede was deliberately triggered, he finds himself caught between exposing the conspiracy and saving Spurs from the hands of men playing for keeps.

In Goldhill, Two-Gun Lil Peters uncovers a sinister scheme behind a series of mine floods that have killed workers and driven down stock prices—and she suspects the crooked mine owner Dawson is behind it all. Following a trail of clues to Pyramid Lake, Lil discovers how the floods are being engineered and moves to stop the perpetrators before they can strike again. It's a tale of quick thinking, sharpshooting, and frontier justice from the final chapter of Lil Peters' legendary exploits.

In "Hangnoose Sunrise!", Johnny Cash finds himself falsely accused after being knocked out during a bank robbery, left holding a bag of stolen money and arrested. With the help of a chance encounter in jail and a clever escape, he sets out to clear his name, tracking down the real culprits—Sag Sawyer and Rupe Hedge—using his signature trick lariat to bring them to justice.

Frontier Marshal Bob Allen's reputation as a gunslinger is put to the test when a bank robbery leaves his friend Tom Mason dead—and Mason's grief-stricken son Jed convinced that Allen is responsible. When the unscrupulous Ben Prue sees an opportunity to exploit the boy's rage, Allen must find a way to expose the real bandit before Jed becomes a tool for something far worse. It's a classic showdown between duty and the collateral damage a lawman's reputation can cause.