Four Color #876

In "Alder Gulch," Hardie rides into a dusty frontier town where stagecoaches keep vanishing without a trace. With the sheriff in Virginia City more concerned with keeping peace than solving the robberies, Hardie follows the trail through the rugged terrain, where silence and suspicion hang thick in the air.

In the dusty frontier of 1958’s Four Color #876, Jo, a quiet Basque immigrant sheepherder, finds himself framed for kidnapping a young girl and stealing a precious diamond brooch. As suspicion burns hot and a mob gathers, the only one standing between him and a lynching is Hardie, who must piece together the truth before justice is taken into violent hands.

In the 1850s, a rival of Wells Fargo opens a new office in San Francisco using Chinese labor, but the workers' belief that the site is cursed leads to a quiet standoff—Chinese merchants, refusing to enter the building, instead choose to do business across the street with the original Wells Fargo.