Outlaws of the West #25

The Utah Kid, renowned as the fastest gun in the West, dismisses Marshal Blaine's warning that there's always someone faster—until the marshal tracks him down years later to settle the question once and for all. When the two finally face off, doubt creeps into the Kid's mind at the crucial moment, and the outcome hinges on whether speed alone is enough to survive on the frontier.

Rocky Lane leads a wagon train carrying rifles through Dead Man's Pass, racing against an early snowstorm—but hostile Indians pin them down, knowing that if they can hold out just twenty-four hours, the drifts will trap the wagons forever. When Rocky himself is wounded, he pins his hopes on Black Jack, his stallion, to break through enemy fire and reach Fort Yuma with a desperate message for Captain Wright. The gallant horse charges into the snow and chaos as bullets and arrows fly—but whether Black Jack makes it through the blizzard remains to be seen.

Sheriff Kip Manton pursues a bank robber across rough terrain, driven by a personal need—money for a boy's medical care—rather than simple duty. When the outlaw is cornered at his cabin, two opportunistic bounty hunters arrive with their own designs on both the reward and the stolen loot, setting off a chain of greed-fueled complications that nobody quite anticipated. "The Hunters" explores how desperation and avarice can blind people to consequences in the unforgiving frontier.

A young man fresh off the ranch idolizes Fargo Ames, the legendary outlaw king of the Wild Bunch, so much that a quarrel with his sweetheart sends him into the hills seeking to join the gang. When Fargo finally accepts him and takes him on a raid against the very town the boy calls home, the outlaw watches to see what his newest recruit will truly become. In a surprising turn, Fargo reveals why he's willing to let this kid walk away—and it has everything to do with the man he himself once was.