The Hooded Horseman #25

Frontier scout Injun Jones finds himself under suspicion when his tribal mark appears on a wagon full of rifles being smuggled to the Kiowa—but an old mountain man acquaintance, Black Harris, soon discovers the real culprit behind the frame-up. With the Kiowa armed and itching for a fight with the Apache, Jones and Harris must work together to stop a treacherous gun runner before tribal warfare erupts across the territory.

In 1846, three Mexican brothers venture into Arizona's Superstition Mountains seeking gold and strike a remarkable discovery—eight veins of nearly pure ore. But when they return with miners and burros to extract their fortune, Apache warriors who guard the sacred peak exact a devastating price, and the story of the lost gold becomes legend. Decades later, prospectors, desperados, and fortune seekers chase fragments of truth and partial maps, each leaving the mine more hidden than before, until the very landscape itself conspires to keep the treasure buried.

The Bantam Buckaroo sets out to play a prank on Mike Harvey with a carved pumpkin head, but his scheme gets tangled up with three mail robbers who've taken refuge on the ranch—and their attempt to silence Mike with a runaway mowing machine goes dangerously wrong. When a headless figure mysteriously appears on the range that night, the outlaws' nerves fray and suspicion turns deadly among themselves, giving the young buckaroo an unexpected advantage to turn the tables on the killers.