Gabby Hayes Western #39

When a swashbuckling outlaw calling himself Captain Briny and his armored "Prairie Pirate" wagon begin terrorizing the West with audacious raids, even Gabby Hayes finds himself outmatched—and captured. Held prisoner aboard the bandit's mobile fortress, Gabby must use his wits and grit to not only escape, but warn the posse closing in on the desperado's hideout before they walk into a deadly trap. It's frontier justice against piracy when Gabby Hayes decides it's time to reclaim the West.

A man's good name is his most valuable possession—which is why Young Falcon faces a dire threat when a rival warrior named Growfoot ambushes him in the forest, steals his weapons and ornaments, and assumes his identity to gain access to a fur traders' camp full of gold. Now the real Young Falcon must escape his bonds, reach the camp before his imposter can rob the traders blind, and prove which one truly deserves the name—and it won't be settled with words alone.

Gabby Hayes, the talkative foreman of the Bar Nothing ranch, arrives in Mexico to buy cattle but can't resist mouthing off about how easy bullfighting looks—a boast that lands him in the ring with El Diablo, a fearsome bull. As Gabby fumbles his way through the spectacle, he stumbles onto a darker secret: the respected rancher Señor Tamale is actually El Tigre, a ruthless rustler using a bullfighting book to hide his stolen-cattle records. Now Gabby must survive both the bull ring and Tamale's desperate attempts to silence him before the truth can reach Sheriff Pedro.

Gabby Hayes faces his strangest foe yet when the ornery Skeeter Bite uses a special buzzer to command swarms of mosquitoes, turning them into the perfect distraction for his raids on gold shipments and jewelry. As the buzzing bandit strikes again and again, Gabby tries his wits and grit to stop both the pests and the crook behind them. Will the old prospector's unconventional tactics finally bring the Buzzing Bandit to justice?