Zane Grey's Stories of the West #28
"The Gunfighter" in Zane Grey's Stories of the West #28 (1955) delivers a gritty, classic Western tale of redemption and danger, written by Gaylord Du Bois and Zane Grey, with evocative art by Albert Micale. Young Buck Duane, a skilled gunman with a clean conscience, is drawn back into the lawless frontier when Captain McNelly offers him a chance at a pardon to infiltrate the shadowy rustler gang led by the elusive Chesaldine. Cover by Sam Savitt captures the tense, brooding atmosphere of a man caught between loyalty and justice, as Buck finds himself entangled with Chesaldine’s daughter—facing a reckoning that could cost him everything.
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Young Buck Duane has his father's talent with a gun, kills a man who draws on him, and flees to ride the outlaw trail as a loner, with his hands clean of evil. Time passes, and by offer of a pardon Capt. McNelly of the Rangers recruits Buck to go undercover and discover the true identity of the mysterious crime lord, Chesaldine, and bust up Chesaldine's rustler gang in the Big Bend region. Buck falls for the Chesaldine's innocent daughter, and must resolve all conflicts or die trying.
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