Gabby Hayes Western #11

Chief Gray Matter poses a riddle to a boastful challenger: can he name six consecutive days without saying Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday? When the chief's clever wordplay reveals the answer, his opponent learns an expensive lesson about the perils of overconfidence—courtesy of a well-placed kick.

Gabby Hayes boasts plenty about his riding skills, but he gets more than he bargained for when a mysterious stranger appears at a trick-riding contest and claims to be a supernatural messenger—the Flaming Phantom Horseman—sent to stir up trouble among the local Indian tribes. With the stranger manipulating superstition to turn the Indians against the settlers and frame Gabby for the chaos, our hero must expose the con before a dangerous scheme spirals into violence. Partnering with his loyal horse Corker and his friend Red Fox, Gabby uncovers the truth behind the phantom's fiery disguise and the greed that fuels it.

Young Falcon, a lone hunter whose tribe was massacred, discovers tracks leading to the camp of the friendly Sushawno tribe—and realizes a band of marauders has taken it while the hunting braves are away. Trapped between a sentry, a raiding party, and captured women and children, Young Falcon must devise a way to overcome impossible odds with nothing but his wits and the resources at hand. His solution proves as clever as it is unexpected in this tale of swift justice from the frontier.

Gabby Hayes heads downriver on a paddlewheel steamer with ten thousand dollars entrusted to him by local ranchers, only to recognize one of his fellow passengers as Trigger Tim, a notorious killer in disguise—trouble is, nobody believes him. When Gabby's accusations land him in hot water with the captain, he'll have to navigate both a murderer's schemes and the chaos that erupts aboard ship to protect his cargo and clear his name.

A penny-pinching father refuses to give his son even a single cent—he's been saving the same penny for fifteen years and guarding it so closely that Lincoln's whiskers have become ingrown. This humorous tale from Gabby Hayes Western captures the comic absurdity of misplaced thrift taken to its most ridiculous extreme.