Crack Western #76

Arizona Raines and his partner Spurs ride into the frontier town of Alameda, where they stumble upon a desperate situation: Nan Grogan is fighting to keep her stage line operational, but ruthless Bat Hogwyn is determined to seize control—and he's willing to use dirty tricks and hired guns to stop her deliveries from reaching Boot City by sundown. When the stagecoach vanishes mysteriously on a narrow mountain trail, Arizona and his companions must solve the mystery and face down Hogwyn's men in a desperate race against time.

Two-Gun Lil puts away her guns for a peaceful visit to Hangtown, but when the notorious stage robber Black Barney and his gang relieve her of her prized six-shooters during a holdup, she hatches a plan to get them back—and take down the outlaw himself. Using the cover of a dress shop, Lil sets a trap for the charming but deadly bandit, leading to a showdown that will test both her wits and her trigger finger.

When hired killers threaten to drive peaceful farmers from their homestead claims in Nester Valley, wandering rider Johnny Lash—known as the Whip—stumbles upon the violence and takes up their cause against the ruthless Curly Brock and his gun-toughs. With Dan Hawke wounded and his small band of settlers outgunned, the Whip must devise a strategy to turn the tide when Brock launches a midnight raid intent on burning them out. It's a clash between hired guns and determined homesteaders, with one man's whip standing between justice and bloodshed.

Marshal Bob Allen confronts a troubled young man named Bud Hale who's fallen under the sway of the drifter Pony Roan, a hardened troublemaker determined to use the kid's gun-hungry ambitions for his own purposes. When Pony pushes Bud toward a deadly confrontation, the marshal must find a way to break the boy's dangerous idolization before twisted loyalty lands him on Boot Hill. Allen's got one chance to show Bud what kind of man he's really chosen to follow.