Cheyenne Kid #44

Blinded by a vicious blow during a fight with the Blackfoot brave Acono, the Cheyenne Kid must navigate the treacherous depths of the Howling Squaw Mine—a goldmine he's come to guard—while three armed claim-jumpers hunt for the legendary mother lode. Stripped of his sight but intimately familiar with every shaft and passage, the Cheyenne Kid faces killers who think darkness gives them the advantage, unaware that he's learned to fight without light.

The Cheyenne Kid risks everything to retrieve a prized stallion from the New Yorker Saloon—a daring theft that's actually a desperate rescue plan. When the ruthless Kyle Weeder pursues him back to the ranch, the boy must outthink a gunslinger who'll stop at nothing to claim both the horse and silence anyone who might betray him to the law. It's a tense showdown where quick thinking and loyalty to an old friend prove mightier than bullets.

Sheriff Joe Slidell recounts a strange case from his years upholding the law in Conchero County—the unlikely intersection of a retired U.S. Marshal named John Southard, who's settled in town to write his memoir, and a train robber named Jules Maher, who arrives with his own mysterious purpose. As these two men from opposite sides of the law cross paths, Slidell reveals how their encounter became a test of something far more powerful than guns or grudges.

When two trigger-happy buffalo hunters shoot down a young Comanche boy on the frontier, the Cheyenne Kid saves the wounded teen's life—only to be brought before Spearkiller, the war chief, accused of attempted murder. Now the Cheyenne Kid must stand before a council of Comanche braves while Spearkiller demands justice, and the fate of a man caught between two worlds hangs on whether the truth can overcome a father's rage.