Rod Cameron Western #4

Hoghead Harry accuses Jim Cody of being a deceitful double-crosser, claiming Cody smiles to your face while sabotaging you behind your back. When Harry throws a rock at Cody, the man ducks—only to reveal the rock was meant for a stray dog, not the cowboy.

Rod Cameron rides the Timberland Trail to inspect beaver dams that could save his drought-stricken town, forming an unexpected bond with a friendly beaver he names Bucky. As he prepares to build a floodgate to control the water, a notorious bushwacker named Blue Jaw Jason plots to ambush him, leading to a tense showdown that ends with the outlaw captured—only for a new threat to emerge when Jason escapes and takes the sheriff hostage.

Rancher Rollins receives his son’s report card with growing dismay, only to realize the real issue isn’t the grades—but the terrible printing. The boy, clearly unbothered, points out the sloppy text with a mix of humor and honesty, turning a tense moment into a lighthearted exchange.

Sam the Sheriff is alarmed when a wanted poster for the escaped murderer Killer Kearns arrives in the mail, prompting him to urgently hire a deputy. The man who answers his ad claims to be a seasoned detective from New York, boasting of solving cases like the "Shrinking Vest" and tracking a lost man across multiple states—only to admit he got lost in Brooklyn. When the man recounts a bizarre "chase" that ended with him being shot (but not harmed, thanks to his hat), Sam is ready to punch him—until the man reveals he’s actually from the Marshal’s Office and that Killer Kearns has been captured.

Hotshot Horace defends a man accused of a crime committed in Prairie Corners, arguing that the defendant couldn’t have been there because he was simultaneously seen in Tall Pine City—until he admits he himself was in two places at once, claiming he was homesick while also in Adobe Town across the border. The courtroom erupts in disbelief as Horace insists that being homesick and being somewhere else at the same time proves the impossible is possible.