Lash La Rue Western #71

Lash La Rue rides into Knolltown hoping to reconnect with his old friend Breck, only to find the man caught in the fury of an angry mob—all because his son Danny has run off to join the outlaw gang led by Utah Haynes. Revealing himself as an undercover marshal, Lash infiltrates the gang's hidden hideout in the canebrakes to reach Danny and talk him away from a life of crime. When the outlaws plan to rob the town bank, Lash makes his move, and with Danny and Breck at his side, he must stop the gang before they strike.

Marshal Lash La Rue tracks a gang of outlaws to their remote hideout, only to find them planning an ambush at a rope bridge spanning a treacherous chasm. When the criminals weaken the bridge to trap him, La Rue must rely on his quick wits and his trusty bullwhip to turn their scheme against them and bring the fugitives to justice.

Lash La Rue rides into a lawless strip of land between Utah and Arizona, where outlaw Wolf Tate and his gang rule unopposed—terrorizing government surveyors and anyone else who stands in their way. When a stranger helps surveyor Jim Tuttle stand up to Tate's men in town, he finds himself enlisted to help complete the survey and drive the outlaws out of their untamed kingdom. With Tate's gang lying in wait in the hills, Lash and Tuttle set out to finish the job, knowing the odds are stacked against them.

Josh McRae's endless practical jokes finally push the new cowhand Dan Smith to his breaking point on the ranch. When Josh's pranks escalate from swapped drinks to tampering with saddles, Dan decides the joker needs a lesson—one delivered at gunpoint with blank shells.

Lash LaRue rides into the Black Hills to track a giant puma that's been terrorizing a tribe of Pimas, who believe their medicine gods have abandoned them and sent the monster as punishment. With a colossal cat twice the size of any normal mountain lion stalking the sacred hunting grounds, Lash must hunt down the maneater before fear and superstition ignite a war that spreads across the territory. It's a desperate chase against an animal born of nightmare—and time is running out.