Cowboy Western Comics #27

When a drifter named Bob Wade nearly dies in the desert, Sunset Carson rescues him and brings him to the ranch—but Wade is carrying a secret letter claiming that Carson killed his father, and Murdock, Carson's treacherous foreman, recognizes the boy as the son of a man he murdered. As Murdock schemes to drive the young man away and Webster, Carson's partner, grows increasingly hostile over Carson's decisions, tensions on the ranch spiral toward a dangerous confrontation, with the truth about Wade's father's death hanging in the balance.

Sunset Carson tracks a ruthless masked outlaw terrorizing Pecos County, but when the Black Bandit robs Mrs. Albright and shoots her son Kit, the investigation takes a dangerous turn that forces Sunset to ride into the criminal's own territory. With Kit as the only witness to the bandit's true identity, and the masked desperado determined to silence anyone who knows too much, Sunset must race against time to stop a killer before another tragedy strikes.

In 1875, prospector James Pearson's discovery of gold in a ravine ignites a rush that transforms the remote Indian Territory into the boomtown of Deadwood within a single year, drawing fortune-seekers, gunmen, and gamblers by the thousands. The story traces how legendary figures like Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane made their mark on the lawless frontier settlement, and how the town's violent past—including Hickok's fatal encounter—became the stuff of legend and dime-novel folklore. From gold-mad chaos to a quiet, preserved reminder of the Old West, this is the true history behind a place that shaped the American imagination.