Rocky Lane Western #80
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeRocky Lane must stop a scheme by the villainous Red Murphy, who has hired gunhands to cause trouble in town. After a fistfight breaks out, Rocky confronts the man behind the plot, discovering Red Murphy's true identity and his motivations. Rocky ultimately prevails, subduing the criminals and restoring peace to the territory with the help of his stallion Black Jack.
A tenderfoot with stolen money and a bullet crease recovers under the care of an outlaw tracker named Zip Reeder, who recognizes the work of a ruthless gunman—Al Linton. Over the winter in the badlands, Reeder teaches the green dude how to shoot, ride, and fight, preparing him for a reckoning in the spring. When the moment comes, the transformed tenderfoot faces down Linton and his gang in a frontier showdown.
Cornered at an old quarry by Simmons and his two hired guns, Rocky Lane finds himself trapped with seemingly no escape—but the secret marshal has a trick up his sleeve. Using cunning decoys and quick thinking, Rocky turns the tables on his pursuers in a tense gunfight where the odds shift dramatically in his favor. By the time the dust settles, Lane has narrowly survived what could've been his final stand.
When crooked saloon owner Casper Lake stirs up a mob to lynch Earl Edmonds for a shooting, Rocky Lane must stand between vigilante justice and the rule of law—watching carefully as the townsfolk decide whether they'll follow Lake's call for mob action or turn against his scheme. It's a tense showdown where Rocky discovers Lake's real motive and confronts him head-on, relying on the town's better instincts to prevent violence.
Lance Hubbard won't sell his valuable land to the ruthless Duke Abel, and that refusal marks him as a target—especially once Duke discovers the farmer doesn't carry a gun. When ambush comes calling, Lance must decide whether to break his promise to his young wife Mary and take up arms, or find another way to stand his ground against hired gunhawks bent on removing him from the territory. This tense Western tests whether a peaceful man can survive in untamed country when violence becomes unavoidable.
Four years after a drifting cowhand named Topeka saves a starving colt from the wolves, Black Jack has grown into a powerful stallion—and when Topeka finds himself facing down outlaws after his saddlebags, the stallion remembers his debt. This short western tale explores an unlikely bond of loyalty between man and horse, as one good deed comes full circle in the frontier.
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Reprinted in Rocky Lane Western #132
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