Gunsmoke #10

Gunsmoke and his faithful companion Pedro trade their saddles for the rails when they sign on to protect the Tascora and Bainville Spur from a string of mysterious train wrecks—only to discover that the railroad's own division superintendent is orchestrating the sabotage to force the owner into selling cheap. With a freight train barreling toward disaster at Dead Man's Curve, Gunsmoke and Pedro must race against time in a desperate gambit across mountains and speeding cars to stop the wrecker and his boss before it's too late.

On the Talama Reservation, lawman Bat Thurmond has terrorized the Osage people for years, stealing oil rights through violence and murder—until Grey Feather, a brave young man from the tribe, decides to take him down by infiltrating his criminal operation. Grey Feather gets himself sworn in as a deputy agent and spreads word that he's struck oil, luring Thurmond into making him a "partner" in his deadly scheme. Now Grey Feather must survive Thurmond's lethal plans long enough to expose the truth before the criminal's grip tightens around everyone he loves.

When timid Chet Fairchild offers to escort the beautiful Ellen Field to the eerie ghost town of La Luz in search of a hidden gold mine map, the journey takes a dangerous turn—especially with the Masked Marvel watching from the shadows.

When rancher J.H. Tunstall is murdered by the Murphy gang during a range dispute, young Billy the Kid swears vengeance and takes the law into his own hands—a choice that transforms him from cowboy into fugitive and sets him on a collision course with newly appointed Sheriff Pat Garrett. As Billy chalks up a deadly reputation across the Southwest, Garrett's manhunt closes in, leading toward an inevitable final confrontation that will determine whether the outlaw or the lawman prevails. Doug Wildey illustrates this 1950 tale of the West's most notorious young desperado, tracing the path that made Billy a legend before his twenty-first year.