Lash La Rue Western #73

Lash La Rue pursues the outlaw Barre across mountain trails and desert, determined to stop him before he crosses the border at the border town of Quinto. After surviving multiple ambushes—including an ill-timed kick from a mustang and failed gun attacks from Barre's hired gunslick Nick DeJong—the marshal closes in on his quarry at a cantina in Quinto itself. With help from an unexpected ally and his trusty bullwhip, Lash confronts Barre and his gang for a final reckoning in this 1959 western tale.

Lash La Rue takes a job as marshal of Sage City for five hundred a month, but his even-handed enforcement of the law—including against the rowdies who spend freely at saloon owner Leo Barnes' establishment—puts him at odds with the town council's real agenda. When Barnes frames him in a deadly trap, Lash must use his legendary whip skills to prove he's the honest lawman Sage City actually needs.

Outlaw Macklin spots a gold shipment being bolted into a stagecoach and hatches a plan to steal it—but he'll have to get past the guard and figure out how to extract the heavily secured strongbox. When the driver stalls long enough for Macklin to work, the outlaw manages to remove the bolts and crack open the box, only to discover the tables have turned in the most unexpected way.

Lash LaRue rides into Cottonwood as an undercover state marshal to settle a brewing conflict between a powerful rancher and struggling settlers who've staked claims on government land. When the rancher's hired guns escalate the violence, Lash helps the nesters organize—but must confront a ruthless agitator whose thirst for revenge threatens to tear apart everything he's trying to build. In "Flaming Vengeance," Lash discovers that sometimes the real enemy isn't the one you expect.