Two-Gun Kid #11
Two-Gun Kid
Southwestern Railroad is having trouble keeping it's workings in line, as whenever work on the rail line is done they go into the rail town and get drunk at Brett's Place and get into fights. It's gotten to the point that it is effecting production and railroad owner Franklin Calhoun faces financial ruin if the rail line does not get finished in time. Calhoun hires on the Two-Gun Kid to work as a trouble shooter to keep the workers in line much, after all the others have been killed by men in the employ of Brett, to the chagrin of his daughter Bess. Cal Brett learns of Two-Gun's employment and warns the Kid not to bother his patrons or disturb his business or he will regret it.
Calhoun takes the Two-Gun Kid to meet Paddy, the foreman of the railroad. When Two-Gun asks him and the other workers not to go to Brett's Place to drink. The foreman refuses to do anything about it and the two eventually break out in a fist fight. However, the Kid manages to win the fight. In the aftermath, Paddy stands down and orders his men back to camp, telling them that they are not going to be drinking that night.
The Two-Gun Kid decides to ride around the area and get to know the land better. While out riding, Paddy warns the Kid of that Brett's hired gun, a man named Wolf, is about to shoot. The Kid manages to evade the shots fired at him and shoot Wolf dead. The Kid is thankful to Paddy but wonders why the foreman is suddenly willing to help him out. Paddy explains that he has no grudges and that he won his fight fair and square. The Two-Gun Kid continues on his way, he is jumped by more men hired by Brett. They subdue the gunslinger and ties him up. Brett then begins smashing the Kid's hands with the butt of his gun. After this torture, Brett has his men tie up the Two-Gun Kid to the rails to be killed by the upcoming train and leave him to die alone.
However, before the train can run him over, the Two-Gun Kid is rescued by Paddy who arrives in the nick of time. Two-Gun and Paddy ride back into the rail town where the Kid confronts Brett. As it turns out Calhouns daughter is in love with him, but the Kid shoots him dead anyway. In the aftermath, the Two-Gun Kid leaves, convinced that Calhoun's daughter will soon find love with Paddy.
Recurring Characters
Two-Gun Kid
Cyclone
Two-Gun Kid
The town of Taos is taken over by El Toro and his gang forcing people out. Passing through the area in the beating sun is the Two-Gun Kid who needs water fast. He comes across the exiled residents of Taos who tell him of El Toro's take over and that their former home is the only place with water for miles.
Desperate for water, Two-Gun decides to ride into town no matter the danger. Joining him is a Mexican man named Pancho who also desires to get a drink as well. The Kid and Pancho ride into town and Two-Gun asks them El Toro and his men for access to the well to drink from, but they refuse and try to whip the Kid. However, instead fights back gunning them all down one by one entire El Toro and his entire gang is killed.
The Two-Gun Kid quickly goes to the well to take a drink. Pancho is shocked to realize that the Kid was looking to drink water, when he himself was looking to get a drink of liquor.
Recurring Characters
Two-Gun Kid
Cyclone
Black Rider
The Black Rider enters the trial of Salinas Slade and asks to be sworn in as a witness. When this formality is out of the way he tells of his encounter with the notorious outlaw. He explains that Salinas Slade and his gang showed up at the home of the Chisholm, who owned water rights to the area. When the elder Chisholm refused to sell those rights to Slade and his men slaughtered the entire family.
Eventually the trial comes to a conclusion and the jury finds Slade guilty. However before sentence can be carried out, Slade's gang bursts into the court room to free their leader. Although the black Rider succeeds in killing a few of the gangs number, Slade and the rest of his men manage to get away. The Black Rider quickly mounts his horse Satan and follows after them alone. The Black Rider tracks Slade and his surviving gang members to the top of a bluff. Spotting the Black Rider, Slade sets fire to the brush, the flames forcing the Black Rider and Satan closer to the edge of a cliff.
However, the Satan leaps through the flames and the Black Rider guns down the surprised member of Slade's gang, wiping them all out.
Recurring Characters
Black Rider
Satan
Two-Gun Kid
The Two-Gun Kid comes across a stage coach being attacked by outlaws and comes to it's rescue, shooting them dead. He checks on the passengers and learns that one of them is a boxer named Lefty Belton who is heading to Julesberg to fight it out with Ox Leach. They find that Lefty has taken a bullet to the arm and his manager realizes that Lefty cannot fight in the match. Lefty laments how he and his girl Helen is waiting for him in town and that they were going to get married after the match. With the coach driver dead, the Two-Gun Kid agrees to help pilot the stage the rest of the way to Julesberg.
They arrive in town to find the locals fighting with each other in the streets. However when Helen arrives she pretends that the Two-Gun Kid is really Lefty in front of the sheriff. The next thing he knows it the Kid is being ushered into a room and asked to put on boxing togs. When the Kid initially refuses the sheriff pulls his gun on him. Suddenly, Helen and Lefty's agent enter the room and to confuse matters worse, Helen then tells them that the man she kissed outside and said was Lefty is not really the man she wishes to marry. Helen explains that they want the Two-Gun Kid to pose as Lefty so that the match can go on and so that Lefty is not forced to forfeit the match.
With no other choice, the Two-Gun Kid agrees to help and goes into the ring posing as Lefty. Two-Gun battles against Ox Leach in the ring and finds that his opponent is fighting for keeps. Eventually the Kid ultimately gains the upper hand, and when he is about to win the match, Ox suddenly takes a bullet fired from the crowd and is killed. In the aftermath, both Helen and the manager reveal that they had placed bets against Lefty in the match, and try to kill Two-Gun Kid in revenge to foiling their plans. The Kid instead shoots the guns out of their hands and then turn the two conspirators over to the sheriff.
Recurring Characters
Two-Gun Kid
Cyclone
