Cheyenne Kid #9

Cheyenne Kid's childhood blood brother Raging Bear leads a war party against him, convinced that the great scout has betrayed the Cheyenne to a crooked white man named Arnie Rork. When Cheyenne hears of the threat, he takes to the trail to confront Raging Bear on his own terms—and discovers the real culprit behind a stolen cache of gold and a Cheyenne warrior's death. Trust, treachery, and frontier justice collide as Cheyenne fights to clear his name and expose the true thief before Colonel Briggs's regiment marches into bloodshed.

The Cheyenne Kid rides into Colorado where a railroad's westward progress is being blocked by a greedy landowner named Dean Brask, who's using violence and deception to extort the company and turn honest settlers against the rails. When Brask's schemes escalate into robbery and ambush, the Kid must navigate between protecting the railroad's interests and ensuring the displaced ranchers get a fair deal—all while staying one step ahead of Brask's hired guns.

A railroad conflict threatens to boil over when the Cheyenne Kid discovers that a ruthless foreman named Kruger has been deliberately stirring up trouble with a local Indian tribe to protect his own crooked schemes. Racing against time to expose the truth and prevent bloodshed, the Cheyenne Kid must convince both sides that their real enemy isn't each other—but the man who's been playing them against one another all along.

Sage-Brush's already having a rough day when the boastful Dude Wilby rolls into town showing off his fancy new duds—and our hero's had about all he can take of the bragging. When Wilby won't stop crowing about his wardrobe, Sage-Brush delivers some choice insults that prove his tongue is sharper than his temper.

When frontier scout Dan'l Boone arrives at tiny Fort Hope with news that Indian tribes are massing on the warpath, the desperate settlers discover their only supply source—a barge owner named Sibley Wenn—is willing to exploit their hunger for outrageous prices. Boone refuses to let the starving pioneers resort to theft, and devises a cunning solution to force Wenn's hand, testing whether the man's conscience can survive the wilderness as well as his greed.