Lash La Rue Western #57

When the Frontier Phantom is mistaken for his twin brother Lash LaRue and handed a forged urgent message, he finds himself trapped in a dangerous scheme orchestrated by outlaw Bill Hood, who's holding the Chief Marshal hostage and demanding a post office mail robbery. With the Chief's life hanging in the balance and two "Lash LaRues" now in play, the Frontier Phantom must outsmart Hood's gang to save his brother and their superior—but nothing's quite what it seems in this twisted game of deception.

Bill Folers rides into Fort Cayoga to find it besieged by the Wolf and his outlaw gang, who are determined to steal the fort's gold bullion and block ammunition shipments. When an attempt to deliver fresh supplies ends in ambush and suspicion falls on Carl Danter, the army's remount man, Bill takes on the dangerous mission to reach the distant supply depot for reinforcements. As he uncovers evidence of a spy working with the Wolf, Bill must race against time to expose the traitor and get help back to the fort before the outlaw army strikes.

Wagonwheels offers his pal Biff a cheerful remedy for sleepless nights—though the cure proves to be more about making the best of insomnia than actually curing it. This quick frontier yarn delivers its punchline with the kind of homespun wisdom that makes a hardship feel a little less hard.

Lash LaRue rides shotgun on a gold shipment headed for Larado, fending off the first band of highwaymen with lethal accuracy—but when the bullion is delayed overnight at the marshal's office, a smooth-talking imposter assumes command and sends the roving marshal on a wild errand to clear the path for the real theft. Lash's suspicions kick in just in time to uncover the con and track down the gang before they escape with the haul.