Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal #44

Young Gene Cabot idolizes Wyatt Earp and dreams of becoming a fast gun, but when a smooth-talking peddler tempts him with a supposedly magical revolver—the gun of Billy the Kid itself—Gene's obsession leads him down a dangerous path. As the boy's newfound confidence turns into deadly confrontations, Marshal Earp begins to suspect the truth behind Gene's transformation, setting the two on an inevitable collision course.

Wyatt Earp trades his badge in Dodge City for a stranger job in the lawless town of Hallelujah, where the mayor steals, the citizens are gunslingers and thieves, and saloons run all night while the church stays shuttered. When Earp finds conventional law enforcement won't work, he partners with a part-time preacher named Joe Ross to drive the town's criminal element out—using methods both unconventional and surprisingly effective. Together they'll have to decide what it takes to save a town too wild for any marshal alone.

Marshal Wyatt Earp is gunned down in a bushwhacking orchestrated by outlaw Buck Raney and his hired killer Rufe Bantry—but when Raney and his gang move in to take over the lawless town, they discover the marshal's grave may not be as final as they believed. As strange occurrences plague the rustlers and Bantry tries to flee, the truth behind Earp's apparent death begins to unravel in the mists of Boot Hill.

A young emigrant from New Hampshire gets robbed in Legbone Creek on his very first day—so he does the unthinkable, steals back what's rightfully his using nothing but desperation and a borrowed gun. Now a fugitive fleeing a posse across a swollen river, Eustace Hayes discovers that sometimes a tenderfoot's greatest weapon isn't a .45, but a sharp mind and an accountant's eye for detail.

When a bounty hunter arrives in Appleton with wanted posters for several of the town's most respected citizens, Wyatt Earp discovers that the gentle townspeople he came to admire were once Confederate soldiers caught up in a post-war robbery—one that may have been more justified than the law allows. Now Earp must navigate the impossible choice between upholding the law and protecting a community he's grown to care for, all while keeping a ruthless hunter from collecting blood money.