Gabby Hayes Western #23

Gabby teams up with an unlikely wooden companion to thwart a pair of crooks who've legally absconded with the town's valuables in this lighthearted frontier romp from Jack Binder. When the villains make their escape across the county line, Gabby and his silent partner pursue them downriver, using cunning and happenstance to derail their getaway. It's a tale of ingenuity and grit—with more than a little help from luck and a very useful hunk of wood.

Chief Gray Matter rolls into town with a reputation for being one of the smartest fellas around, and a skeptical onlooker decides he's going to prove the chief wrong by stumping him with a riddle. When Chief Gray Matter takes the bait and hears the puzzle about lighting a pipe without matches, his quick thinking delivers an answer that leaves the doubter eating his words.

Young Falcon, the forest's greatest hunter, sets out alone across a wolf-filled wilderness—only to discover that someone has sabotaged his weapons before he left, snapping his bow and shattering his tomahawk mid-combat. Hunted and weaponless, he must use cunning and desperation to survive the relentless wolf-pack and the dangers lurking in the mountain hills, all while piecing together who betrayed him and why.

Gabby Hayes drops by Willy Woolley's sheep ranch in search of a good night's sleep, but stumbles onto the sheepman's scheme to run all the cowboys out of Rawhide County—and gets more excitement than he bargained for when he finds himself face-to-face with Blaster, a massive battering ram with a mind of his own. What starts as a desperate escape becomes an all-out rodeo that leaves the entire ranch in ruins and teaches the sheepmen a lesson about tangling with Gabby Hayes.

When drought threatens a farmer's crops, Whitey Whiskers decides to lift his spirits with tall tales about an even worse dry spell—complete with dust clouds from migrating salmon and a thirsty fish walking miles for water. His outlandish yarns prove so funny that even the clouds above can't help but laugh themselves into a collision, bringing real rain just when Farmer Fred needs it most.

Gabby Hayes stumbles into chaos when a fox hunt—complete with fancy Eastern hunters in red coats—pursues its prey right across his path, leaving him with the scent and a pack of hounds hot on his heels. Desperate to shake the dogs, he accidentally crashes into the hideout of outlaw Newt Figton, sparking a wild collision of two very different kinds of trouble. When tempers flare and bullets start flying, Gabby has to use his wits—and a well-timed fox cry—to turn the tables on both the bandits and the bewildered hunting club.