Six-Gun Heroes #73

When Annie Oakley agrees to lead a cattle drive to Dodge City for her old friend Hal Pierce, she discovers the hired drovers won't take orders from a woman—skeptical that she can handle the rough work of trail boss. After proving her mettle by riding an untamable bronc, Annie must face a more serious test when rustlers strike in the night, sending the herd into a stampede that threatens to trample the sleeping cowboys.

Wyatt Earp tracks a stolen heirloom ring—a priceless diamond passed down from the conquistadores—back to the ruthless crook Macryan, who's hidden it away after orchestrating its theft from a newlywed bride named Chiquita. Without a search warrant and facing Macryan's armed thugs, Earp devises a clever trap to get inside the criminal's office and recover what was taken. This 1963 frontier tale pits the marshal's cunning against a vicious outlaw determined to keep the prize.

When the railroad work dries up, a group of Chinese settlers led by Yang Chu seeks to establish a farming community on the frontier—but the territory's most powerful rancher, Kyle Ellis, will stop at nothing to drive them away. Clay Boone, the town's peaceful gunsmith, stands against Ellis's cruelty and racism, only to be beaten down by the rancher's brutal foreman Corbin; yet when Ellis threatens to destroy the Chinese camp, Clay must choose between his pacifist convictions and his responsibility to protect those who've shown him kindness. The Gunmaster emerges to settle the matter once and for all.