Two-Gun Kid #6

The Trail of the Owl-Hooter!

Two-Gun Kid is called to San Antonio, Texas by the governor of the state who hires him to track down and bring in an outlaw named Chet "Limp" Saunders who was last seen near the town of Farnum Flats where he mysteriously vanished years ago. With a physical description of Saunders, Two-Gun rides into the town of Farnum Flats. There he is ambushed by some outlaws who try to rob him. However, the Kid is saved by the local sheriff, who gets the drop on them. After the gunfire stops, Two-Gun notices the sheriff walks with a limp and matches Saunders description.

Two-Gun then is invited back into town and meets the sheriffs family. They are soon interrupted by Louise who is afraid for her boyfriend Jim Hart who has local outlaw Lash McKinley after him for wanting to quit the gang and marry Louise. The sheriff explains that he wishes to help out Jim because every man needs an opportunity to redeem himself. Two-Gun agrees to help and the pair gun down Lash McKinley. With the crisis over, Two-Gun Kid explains why he came to Farnum Flats and that he knows who the sheriff really is. Having seen that the Chet Saunders has redeemed himself and given up his outlaw ways, he tells the sheriff that he is returning to the governor to tell him that Lash McKinely "AKA Limpy Saunders" was killed and leaves the real Saunders to continue living his new, law abiding life.

Recurring Characters

• Two-Gun Kid

• Cyclone

Showdown at the Sonoma Stage!

In the town of Somona, a stage coach carrying gold is once more robbed and the driver shot dead. Hoping to stop the thief, the local banker hires Tex Taylor to ride shotgun on the next ride out. Tex decides to throw off the robbers by having the gold hidden in a bags of oats and having a dummy lock box placed in the front of the cart.

Sure enough the bandits attack, with one of their members revealed to be disguised as a woman riding in the coach. Tex quickly surrenders and turns over the lock box much to the surprise of everyone else on the coach that is unaware of his switch. Tex assures them that the bandits won't get away and continues the ride into town. Before he can be called a coward, Tex reveals his trick, kicking over the bag of oats revealing the gold was hidden inside the whole time, thus outsmarting the outlaws.

Recurring Characters

• Tex Taylor

• Fury

Death Rides the Range!

At the Double Bar ranch, Billy Harrison finds another one of the ranches cattle dead. Two-Gun Kid passes through the area and Billy thinks him the source of the cattle dying and tries to shoot him. The Kid easily disarms the boy and when he tries to explain that the cattle has died of disease and who he is. Surprised to meet the Two-Gun Kid, Billy asks the Kid if he can help him and his sister Betty from having to sell their ranch. He explains that their father died six months earlier leaving them to run the ranch and the cattle began mysteriously dying.

They arrive at the ranch just as their neighbour Mr. Morgan is once more pressuring Betty to sell the land to him. Morgan tells them that he will give them a good price on the land and presses her to sell him the cattle before it all gets sick. Two-Gun convinces Betty to not sell the spread for another day until he has a change to look around. Morgan walks off angry, warning Betty that Two-Gun won't be able to bring dead cattle back to life.

As Two-Gun Kid searches the land on his horse Cyclone, they stop by a pond to get a drink of water. When Cyclone refuses to drink the water, the Kid realizes that there is oil in the water and that the Harrison's are rich. Hearing a crash, Two-Gun check out the source of the noise and catches two of Morgan's men attempting to inject one of the Harrison cows with the disease that is killing off the cattle. When the Kid tries to confront them, they pistol whip him and tie him up then go to meet up with Morgan who is returning to the Double Bar to pressure the Harrison's to sell.

Two-Gun revives and calls Cyclone who bites through his ropes and races to the ranch. There he stops Morgan before he can force Betty to sign the deed to the ranch over to him by threatening to burn her with a branding iron. Disarming Morgan, Two-Gun Kid rounds the crooked rancher and his men up and takes them off to the sheriff.

Recurring Characters

• Two-Gun Kid

• Cyclone