Monte Hale Western #34

Monte Hale rides into Baker City for jury duty only to find the courthouse under siege—the Gravedigger, a hired killer working for crime boss Bankroll Barr, is terrorizing jurors to force Barr's release from a murder trial. With the terrified townspeople refusing to serve, Monte sets out to capture the deadly gunman before justice can be served. Using cunning and courage, Monte devises a daring plan to track the killer to his hideout and stop him cold.

Foreman Gabby Hayes stumbles into a frog-jumping contest at the Rawhide County Fair when a giant bullfrog lands in his pocket—just as the championship rival Hawk-Eye Pete is about to claim his fifth consecutive $500 prize. With Gabby's unlikely entry now in the ring, the two stubborn prospectors clash over whose frog will take the crown, but Hawk-Eye Pete has tricks up his sleeve. It's a Western comedy where pride, competition, and amphibian athletics collide in the dustiest, most absurd way possible.

Monte Hale answers a marshal's mysterious summons along a Kansas trail, only to discover they're setting a trap for a prairie peddler who's actually Luke Cleaver—a fugitive outlaw hiding $20,000 in gold bullion. When the marshal devises a plan for Monte to go undercover as the bandit himself, complete with a false beard, everything goes sideways when the disguise fails at a mountain hideout and Monte finds himself facing down the entire Cleaver gang with nothing but his wits and whatever's at hand.

Monte Hale stumbles upon a ruthless gang of buffalo hunters slaughtering the western herds for profit, and after a brutal clash leaves him knocked cold, he takes his case straight to the President of the United States. Armed with a presidential order and federal support, Monte returns to confront the butchers and their corrupt local allies in a final reckoning that will determine the fate of the buffalo on the plains.

Big Bow and Little Arrow duck into a movie theater to escape a pursuing posse, only to find themselves caught in the crossfire when crooks hiding in the same theater mistake them for lawmen. As chaos erupts inside the cinema, the two unlikely heroes stumble into a showdown with the fugitives that lands them in an unexpectedly awkward position with the actual sheriff.

When mysterious outlaws strike coaches and trains across the desert Southwest with impossible speed, the Fargo Express Company calls on Monte Hale to solve the riddle—but after a brutal encounter leaves him captured, he discovers the gang's secret isn't horsemanship at all. With the help of a circus owner and an unlikely animal companion, Monte sets out to corner the Desert Raiders before they vanish into the sand dunes again.