Gabby Hayes Western #47

Gabby Hayes hatches a clever scheme to outwit bandits plaguing a gold mining camp: he melts down the miners' fifty thousand dollars in gold and casts it into wagon wheels, then paints them to look ordinary—figuring no crook would bother stealing plain wheels. But when the plan goes awry and Gabby finds himself wrongly imprisoned while the bandits make off with the wagon, he'll need all his wits and grit to recover the golden wheels and expose the true thieves.

A tenderfoot shows up at Sour-dough Jake's cabin, and the ranch boys can't resist putting him through every trick in the book—from snipe hunts to bucking broncos to branding irons. Gabby Hayes spins this tall tale of frontier hazing with his characteristic yarn-spinning flair, letting readers wonder whether the newcomer will survive the relentless ribbing or finally earn his spurs.

When a plague of locusts threatens to devour the rangelands around Rawhide, Gabby Hayes faces off against a cunning schemer named Pesty Buggs who claims he can control the insects—and demands payment from the ranchers to spare their herds. Gabby hatches a plan to save the day by recruiting an unlikely ally from nearby Salt Lake, leading to a wild chase across the damaged range that puts both the troublemaker and the locust swarm on the run.

Young Falcon discovers that the Onadontas' young braves have been mysteriously dying during their traditional trial to slay a grizzly bear, and he sets out to uncover the deadly secret behind these tragic failures. When he encounters the beast himself, his keen eye for tracking reveals a cunning tactic that no inexperienced warrior could have anticipated—and only quick thinking and combat skill will let him survive to share what he's learned. A tense frontier tale of tradition, courage, and the ingenuity required to outwit nature's most ferocious predator.

Gabby Hayes takes on the job of tax collector when a stubborn, illiterate miser named Abel refuses to pay his school taxes—and the previous collectors have all ended up in the hospital. When Gabby storms the miser's heavily guarded ranch, he quickly discovers that brawn alone won't work, but a clever observation from a young boy named Tippy about Abel's faulty business dealings might just expose the real thief behind the scheme. A tale of wit triumphing over grit in the rough-and-tumble Rawhide County.