Lash La Rue Western #67

When Lash La Rue discovers he's been set up to face down Murdock and his gang in a man-to-man confrontation, the outlaw leader makes a desperate call to fight their way out with guns blazing. But La Rue has other plans—and his whip is already singing through the air, ready to bring swift justice to the lawless bunch in this frontier showdown.

Lash La Rue rides into the town of Titus searching for an owlhooter and quickly becomes suspicious when the "law-abiding" townspeople seem to be harboring a fugitive—but a closer look reveals that the real outlaw might be Herbert Greenrock, the town's leading citizen. When a payroll robbery occurs and Jimmy Blood becomes the prime suspect, Lash must navigate Greenrock's hired guns and uncover the truth about who's really running the town and what crimes are really being committed.

Davy Crockett spins a tall tale for an eager crowd about the time a buffalo stampede nearly trampled him flat—after he'd already helped a desperate Native American hunter bring down a grizzly bear to feed his starving people. When the herd's scent catches the wind and the animals charge, Crockett finds himself pinned beneath a fallen buffalo and forced to reload and shoot his way through the onslaught. It's the kind of close call that leaves a man with plenty of scars and even more stories to tell.

Lash LaRue takes on a mysterious assignment from the Governor to deliver a sealed package to Cochise City, but the outlaw Kelso Brown and his gang are determined to intercept it at any cost. With bullets flying, ambushes at every turn, and Lash's trusty whip keeping the criminals at bay, the roving marshal must get the cargo through—though neither he nor anyone else knows what's really at stake. When the truth finally emerges in Cochise City, it becomes clear that stopping Kelso wasn't just about a prize, but about saving lives.

When a young woman is taken by Crees, her uncle's message reaches Lash LaRue, who sets out on a dangerous rescue mission into the heart of their village. Racing against time and the entire camp, LaRue must use cunning and quick thinking to get the captive to safety—but escape proves far trickier than the rescue itself. A tense frontier adventure about courage under fire and the lengths one man will go to save an innocent life.

In this historical snapshot from the Old West, a resourceful Texas rancher named Col. C. Goodnight turns the tables on cattle thieves by secretly ordering powerful night glasses from San Francisco to monitor his herds after dark. When rustlers inevitably strike under cover of darkness to rebrand stolen calves, a waiting deputy sheriff is ready to catch them red-handed—and the outlaws never suspected the real reason they got caught.

A look at the ingenious pocket pistols that frontier prospectors carried during the Gold Rush, this illustrated piece explores the "bootleg" pistol—a compact .31 caliber weapon designed for quick access from boot or pocket. Despite its rarity today, these Mississippi-born underhammer guns with their distinctive 5-inch barrels played a practical role in the rugged days of '49, proving that Old West self-defense came in surprisingly small packages.

After winning a bullwhip contest, Lash La Rue finds himself framed for a series of gold thefts by the bitter loser, Jake Trumbull, who's using a disguise to commit crimes in La Rue's name. Racing from mining camp to mining camp to clear his name and stop Trumbull's scheme, La Rue finally corners the culprit and forces a reckoning neither man will soon forget.

A mysterious gunman with blazing red eyes rides into town on a stolen horse, and when a rancher named Clay Ammen crosses him, Red-Eye Brego decides to rob him at gunpoint—but leaves Ammen wounded and determined for revenge. Nursing his horse through the hills, Ammen pursues the outlaw for a final reckoning on the trail, where only one man's aim will decide the outcome.

When a shift in European fashion—the rise of the silk hat over the beaver—devastated the fur trade during the old frontier days, the mountaineers and traders who'd built their lives around pelts found their world upended. This brief, fascinating look at how a simple change in style rippled across the American West shows how even the mightiest industries can crumble when the market moves on.

When rumors spread that Lash LaRue's hands are too damaged to draw, the tinhorn Keno Riggs seizes his chance—using the marshal's apparent helplessness as cover for a bold robbery spree across town. Lash must decide whether to call Keno's bluff and face him down, knowing the outlaw's gang will tear the town apart if he refuses to fight.

Lash LaRue rides into Baldwin expecting trouble—and finds it immediately when a crooked lawman named Kurt Ord has seized the sheriff's badge and rigged the election to stay in power, imprisoning honest citizens who stand in his way. When Lash lands in jail himself, he discovers Ord's plan to destroy the real ballots and substitute his own, forcing him to break free and fight to give the town a genuine chance to vote. With his whip and cunning, Lash battles Ord's gang to recover the ballot boxes and ensure the election can't be stolen by bullets and bluffing.