Outlaws of the West #55

A smooth-talking gunslinger named Allen rolls into Red Oak with a brutal scheme: he challenges the fastest guns in town for cash, then uses his lightning draw to fleece the locals at poker with threats and violence. When the townsfolk finally tire of his predatory ways, they place a desperate $1000 wager on a mysterious stranger—a quiet man who's been warned to stay out of trouble, but who proves far more than Allen bargained for. It's a satisfying tale of a confidence man meeting his match in the 1965 pages of "Money Gun."

Kaycee Brant busts out of San Carlos prison to rendezvous with Brains Meaney and Chico Chavez at Bushwhack Crossing—and the three have their sights set on a bank holding over $100,000 just thirty miles away. What seems like an easy score hits a snag when they discover the town's part-time sheriff, Roy Johannson, is more than the crippled farm boy they bargained for. The three outlaws are about to learn that underestimating your opposition can be a costly mistake.

A lone outlaw strikes a stagecoach in the high pass and vanishes with nearly twenty thousand dollars, but Sheriff Jess Dowell suspects the thief isn't hiding in the badlands—he's living among honest folk, someone no one would suspect. As Dowell methodically tracks a string of unsolved robberies across the frontier, his instincts lead him to Sam Karch, a seemingly prosperous rancher whose sudden wealth and guarded manner don't quite add up.

In West Texas, Swift Wolf's year-long vendetta against Sergeant Murdo Reed comes to a head when he bushwhacks the cavalry veteran, leaving him for dead in the desert—but Reed survives and, after his military discharge, tracks down his former enemy with something unexpected in mind. What begins as a clash rooted in battlefield deaths transforms into an unlikely proposition that neither man saw coming.