Kid From Texas #1
The Guns of Dan Hawk!
During the battle of the Alamo, Jim Hawk is fighting along side his fellow Texas Rangers when he takes a fatal bullet and dies in the battlefield. News is sent back to his son Dan at Rangers headquarters where the commanding officer calls Dan's father a hero. Dan is taken under the care of Catus, an old family friend who promised Dan's father he would look after the boy should anything happen to him. Over the next few years, Cactus spent his days teaching Dan how to ride a horse and shoot a gun, until Dan became proficient of both. Still a teenager, Dan decided that he wished to follow in his father's footsteps and become a Texas Ranger. However when he arrives at the base he is denied his request due to the fact that he is still too young to join the outfit.
Soon reports of renegade Native Americans on the up rise reach the base and the Texas Rangers are off to face Wassati and his tribe. After the soldiers leave, Dan becomes determined to show the Rangers that he is worthy of their ranks by facing Wassati and his tribe alone. The attack ends with the Native Americans (armed with guns) fleeing the base. Dan and Cactus follow after them to their camp and learn that they are dealing with a trader who is selling them guns. Dan and Cactus then wait until the trader goes to fetch his supply wagon and subdue him, taking the supplies themselves as part of Dan's plan to defeat Wassati and his men.
Dan then goes to the camp and fires at Wassati then races off as the renegade chief and his warriors follow after him. Dan leads them to a ring of gunpowder that Cactus had set for them and surrounds the renegades in a circle of fire, while not far away Cactus is gathering the Rangers to come to help. Caught in the ring of fire, Dan challenges Wassati to a one-on-one duel in exchange for his tribe's surrender and Wassati agrees. Dan easily beasts Wassati in combat and the Native American warriors surrender. Impressed the captain offers Dan a position in the Texas Rangers, however the experience has taught Dan that travelling alone across Texas is the best way he can help the people in the region. Agreeing the captain makes Dan an honorary Texas Ranger and sees him and Cactus on his way. Thus the legend of the Kid From Texas is born.
Recurring Characters
Kid From Texas
Cactus
One Must Die!
The Kid From Texas accepts a challenge from an outlaw named McLean from inside a bar despite the warnings from Cactus not to fall into a trap. The Kid rushes in and shoots out the chandelier plunging the saloon into darkness. allowing McLean to escape out the back way. He later tells Cactus that McLean has been gunning for him ever since he put him away months earlier for robbery. Not willing to endanger Cactus while he hunts down his foe, the Kid tells Cactus to stay behind.
Dan Hawk then began trailing after McLean as he cut a blood path across the west. Eventually McLean got the drop on the Kid From Texas. While the Kid is running for cover, McLean manages to wing him with a bullet. McLean got on top of his foe but his overconfidence left him open for the Kid to attack. The two struggled over the edge of a cliff into a raging river below. As McLean is swept away to his death, while Dan is pulled to safety by Catcus, who come to the Kid's aid anyway.
Recurring Characters
Kid From Texas
Cactus
Showdown at Dawn!
In the town of Twin Forks, the Kid From Texas spots a man abusing his horse and beats him senseless, warning him against abusing his horse ever again. Dan and Cactus then head off to their meeting with Mayor Jessup, who asks for the Kid's help in capturing some bandits who have been robbing coaches and evading capture in the area. As the mayor finishes voicing his suspicions that Blackie Craig and his gang are responsible one of his staff bursts in to inform the mayor that the coach heading up from Cougar's Creek was just robbed by the outlaws.
The Kid From Texas and Cactus then ride out to Cougar's Creek to investigate the crime scene. There the find the tracks belonging to another wagon and they both deduce that the thief was the horse beater from in town. They follow the trail and come upon the wagon, now deserted. Dan tells Cactus to wait behind while he goes in to investigate and is knocked out by Blackie and his men. Plotting to rob the Overland stage at dawn, he leaves a guard to Dan while they ride out to intercept the coach, unaware that Cactus has jumped onto the back of the wagon as they pull out.
That morning as the wagon presses on, one of the guards looks in the back and finds that the Kid From Texas is missing. The pair decide not to worry about it and press on. They then hold up the stage and wait for Blackie and the rest of the gang to come and help them secure the valuables on board. When Blackie and the others arrive, his men inform him how the Kid managed to escape. Being close to the border, Blackie tells his men not to worry about it, however they are suddenly ambushed by the Kid and Cactus who were hiding underneath the wagon the entire time. The pair make short work of the gang and turn them over to the authorities. When the mayor offers the Kid a reward for his work, Dan declines telling the mayor that helping those in need is reward enough for him.
Recurring Characters
Kid From Texas
Cactus
