Outlaws of the West #16

Les Mason has spent months riding through the frontier seeking vengeance—searching every roaring town for the man wearing his father's prized gunbelt, the one taken when his pa was dry-gulched years ago. When a young woman named Mary and her father's bank draw him into a desperate stand against the Sturgett gang, Les finally gets his chance at answers, but the truth about the gunbelt proves far more complicated than his hunger for revenge. A hard-bitten young gunslinger's quest collides with the possibility of something he never expected to find.

Cal Cates learns the hard way that desperation makes for dangerous allies when he strikes a bargain with outlaw chief Yuma Bence to drive sheep rancher Hollister and his hired guns off the open range. But in "Owlhoot Bargain!", sometimes the price of winning your land is losing everything else—and Cal discovers that making a deal with the devil always comes with a twist.

When Ryan controls the valley's water rights with an iron fist and a barbed-wire fence, a desperate stockman named Vince Eberly refuses to watch his cattle die of thirst—and takes matters into his own hands. After Eberly's arrested for watering his herd, he discovers Ryan obtained his deeds through intimidation and underpayment, setting up a confrontation that'll force the "water king" to answer for his greed. It's a frontier tale about standing up to a man who thought he'd cornered the market on survival itself.

Sheriff Sam Moss has to transport his prisoner, the defiant young outlaw Kid Morgan, to Yuma Penitentiary on the noon stage—but Kid's dangerous brothers, the Morgan clan, are waiting at the depot to stop him. With the odds stacked against him and no help from the townspeople, Sam devises a bold strategy to get his prisoner safely aboard before the gunplay begins.