Gabby Hayes #55

Gabby Hayes heads to Chestnut Valley to gather nuts but finds himself at odds with a rustler gang led by the doughnut-obsessed Donuts Duncan, who's planning to raid the Bar Nothing ranch. When Gabby's ammunition runs low during a standoff, he discovers that his unlikely ally—a clever squirrel named Bushy—might be just the partner he needs to outwit the outlaws and save the cattle herd.

Young Falcon, a skilled woodland hunter, discovers a wanted notice for escaped jailbreaker Craig Carson—but his immediate concern is a partridge he's tracked for feathers to trade at a local camp. When Carson ambushes him at gunpoint, steals the bird and Falcon's prized bow, and flees into the dense forest, Falcon must use his woodcraft and wits to track down the outlaw and reckon with him before Carson vanishes into the wilderness.

When a traveling photographer named Tim Type snaps a hilariously unflattering portrait of Gabby Hayes and a woman named Hettie, the unscrupulous cameraman decides to turn their misery into profit—peddling copies of the embarrassing photo across town for a quick buck. Gabby tracks down the schemer to reclaim the negatives, but Tim's got a cunning plan to keep his money-maker safe, and it involves flattering the vain old cowpoke into sitting for even more ridiculous pictures. What starts as a scheme to humiliate Gabby spirals into pure western mayhem when his pursuit of the perfect shot backfires in ways he never anticipated.

Wagonwheels returns to town after a long stretch working up north in a lumber camp, and the fellas are eager to hear about his time away—especially about the food. Turns out those lumber camp cooks knew something about nutrition that our wandering friend finds pretty amusing, and he's got a joke about beans that'll get a chuckle.

When a tough newcomer with stiff, needle-like whiskers named Porcupine Quill challenges Gabby Hayes for his foreman job at the Bar Nothing ranch, Gabby finds himself outmatched—literally bulletproof against every punch. Desperate to prove himself, Gabby devises a clever scheme involving hair solutions, but when Porky's true criminal intentions are revealed, the old foreman must get creative to save the ranch and its owner, Miss Ellie Hempstead. It's a wild western showdown where brains just might beat bristles.

Wagonwheels runs into an old acquaintance who's gotten too big for his britches, bragging about his newfound success as a would-be author writing about the great open spaces. When Wagonwheels decides to teach this fancy fellow a lesson, he gets an idea involving some borrowed helium and a bit of frontier ingenuity. It's a tongue-in-cheek Western tale that proves sometimes a well-timed prank speaks louder than pretentious words.