Bill Boyd Western #6

Bill Boyd investigates a rebellion that's thrown the small fortress town of Montefrado into chaos—but when an innocent lieutenant faces execution for a crime he didn't commit, the cowboy suspects there's a traitor hidden among the governor's own ranks. With a week to find proof and a dangerous mystery to unravel, Boyd must venture into rebel territory to uncover the truth before dawn breaks on the firing squad.

Windy Whopper's tall tale about striking it rich with gold nuggets the size of watermelons catches the ears of two bandits, who decide to follow him home and demand his riches. When they show up at his shack and threaten violence to make him talk, Windy has to think fast—and even faster when his scheme to distract them goes better than expected. A humorous western where a big mouth gets a character into real trouble, and sometimes luck is the only way out.

Brainy Buster spends a rough night when his bed gives way beneath him, leaving him shaken and stuttering through the morning after. This quick western-frontier humor tale plays the simple mishap for all its comedic worth in true 1950 style.

When a telegram arrives announcing the boss's imminent return to the ranch, Buff finds himself scrambling to hide a secret he's been keeping—and his clumsy attempts to cover his tracks set off a chain reaction of misunderstandings that gets worse with every word. This 1950 Bill Boyd Western story is pure comedy gold, playing on the kind of verbal miscues that turn a tense situation into absolute mayhem between a nervous foreman and an increasingly suspicious (and trigger-happy) boss.

Marlow the Mental Marvel sets up shop as a memory-fixing con artist on the frontier, promising a desperate customer his memory will be restored for five dollars. When the man pays with a ten-dollar bill and receives short-changed, Marlow's twisted logic proves his "treatment" worked—the fellow now remembers he should've gotten more back.

Hammerhead asks his pal Billy for help writing a love letter to his sweetheart Annabelle, since his own handwriting won't do the job. What starts as a heartfelt declaration of devotion—full of grand promises to swim oceans, walk through flames, and climb mountains for her—takes a humorous turn when Hammerhead adds one final postscript that completely undercuts all that romantic bravado.