Outlaws of the West #42
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe main story features the outlaw Fatman confronting a Federal Marshal who has tracked him down. After a tense standoff, the marshal is subdued and the story follows Fatman's accomplice Pearly, an aging ex-convict released after serving ten years of a twenty-year sentence at Deer Lodge Penitentiary. When Joe, another gang member, discovers Pearly has been released, he arranges to meet him outside, but Fatman and his men plan to intercept Pearly to prevent him from being captured. The narrative culminates in a confrontation between the outlaws and lawmen, with Fatman attempting to secure water and supplies at a remote ranch while keeping the captured marshal imprisoned in a corral.
When outlaw Foss Bent is captured by Sheriff Frank Crawford in King City, the powerful cattleman King Cabot demands the prisoner be handed over for vigilante justice—but Crawford refuses to let mob rule override the law, even when Cabot's hired guns close in. As the sheriff fights to get Bent to a legal trial, he discovers a dangerous web of betrayal and hired killers that forces Cabot to choose between revenge and the rule of law.
When dying outlaw John "Pearly" Price is released from prison after serving ten years of his sentence, he rides hard across Montana and into Texas with his loyal partner Joe Cobb, driven by a mysterious letter and an urgent mission that won't wait. At the Farnum Ranch, Pearly discovers that Sarah's son Billy has fallen in with Ad Bellman's gang—and the hardened criminal must decide what kind of man he'll be in his final days. A story of redemption, sacrifice, and the choices that define us, told from the memoirs of Joe Cobb.
Ken Rondyl, a deputized horse-wrangler, discovers eight outlaws celebrating a massive bank robbery in a hidden ravine—and decides he's the only one who can stop them from scattering the loot across the territory. Outnumbered and alone, he steals their money and sets an elaborate trap, deliberately staying just ahead of his pursuers to lead them straight into Sheriff Scanlon's path. It's a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse where one man's quick thinking has to outweigh eight guns.
Federal Marshal Charles T. Hazzard arrives in Sweetwater with a warrant for Elmore Roose, the ruthless "Fatman" who controls the region through hired guns and terror—but the clever outlaw has already learned of the lawman's arrival and turns the tables, imprisoning Hazzard in his ranch corral under the brutal sun. When Roose discovers the warrant is only valid once he commits an act of defiance, he's forced to make a deadly choice, unaware that Hazzard's allies have quietly infiltrated his supposedly impenetrable stronghold and are closing in.
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