Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal #53
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Fired Gun," Wyatt Earp is called to Abilene to help rid the town of gunmen who have taken over. A man named Kolb initially orders Earp to leave town, but after Earp demonstrates his authority, Kolb admits he hired Earp along with other honest men to fight the outlaws. When gunfire erupts, Earp pursues the attackers on horseback. The story then shifts to a Texas Ranger hunting Jade Watson, a outlaw, in the town of Pecos, where the Ranger learns that Jade Watson killed his own brother and now fears that anyone who knows this secret will be killed, making the Ranger reluctant to share information about Watson's whereabouts.
When a vengeful man named Lukis dynamites the railroad bridge crossing Tumbling Gulch and claims ownership of the land beneath it, he hatches a scheme to charge exorbitant tolls and ruin the cattlemen who once scorned him—with Wyatt Earp standing in his way. As Lukis raises the toll rates higher and higher, intent on bankrupting the entire valley, Earp discovers a legal loophole that could undo everything the bridgebuilder has worked toward. The Frontier Marshal must navigate an impossible task: keeping a despised man alive long enough to see justice served.
Marshal Wyatt Earp arrives in the rough frontier town of Disko to restore order after the townspeople wire for his help. With a calm demeanor and quick mind rather than his guns, Earp swiftly establishes his authority and takes the marshal's oath—then sets his sights on the hired killers and outlaws who've turned the town into a lawless pit. As dangerous men plot to eliminate him, Earp demonstrates why his reputation precedes him, using cunning and courage to face down those who threaten Disko's peace.
Newly appointed Marshal Wyatt Earp faces off against Henry Kolb, a ruthless outlaw whose gang of over thirty men terrorizes the town of Prairyville—and when Earp jails Kolb, the gang makes their desperate move to break him out. As fire engulfs the jail and bullets fly, Earp finds himself caught between holding the line and keeping his prisoner alive long enough for justice to take its course.
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Reprinted in Wyatt Earp #18 (1964)
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