Ken Maynard #7

Ken Maynard and his wisecracking talking horse Ya-Ta-Ta trade barbs when the cowboy gets distracted daydreaming about life at sea instead of tending to his duties. As their rapid-fire joke battle escalates from gentle ribbing to genuine threats—including Ya-Ta-Ta dunking Ken in the river—the two butt heads over who's sharper and who's had the last word.

Ken Maynard faces treachery in the twisted Badlands while documenting nature's wonders with a film crew—but his guide Renolf Paine grows desperate and plots to eliminate him. After luring Maynard into the eerie Cave of Ghosts, Paine and his ruthless partner trap the western hero in a deep pit with sheer, glassy walls, leaving him to contemplate a grim fate while they escape with their prize.

Sassy Sam enjoys a free meal from Mister Boggs, but when it comes time to honor a promise to work for the food, the hungry wanderer claims his mind was too addled to remember making any such agreement. What starts as a simple transaction threatens to become a standoff between a reluctant laborer and an exasperated host in this humorous western tale.

Ken Maynard faces his deadliest challenge yet when a scheme to capture photographs of the Seven Wonders of the West goes terribly wrong—he's left to die in a pit while a ruthless villain plots to claim the valuable pictures for himself. Escaping his rocky tomb, Ken races to catch up with the expedition at Needle Rock and Horror Hollow, where a living dinosaur guards the final wonder and betrayal lurks at every turn. With his companion Pitkin and his horse Tarzan at his side, Ken must outwit both his human enemies and a prehistoric monster to survive the badlands.