Author Archive: Retro

Lawyer Creech schemes to steal a ranch; when the Tonto Kid finds platinum, he is framed for murder

Gold stages are being held up in the far west at a time when the U.S. government needs bullion, just before the famed “Black Friday” attempt to corner the gold market. The government sends the Range Busters, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, to Gold Butte, an important bullion dispensing center, to put an end to the stage robberies.

Kirk Baxter has been sent to investigate murder and robbery involving gold shipments. Identifying a gang member by his bullets, he uses that man’s horse to locate and join the gang. He learns the gang is tipped off to the shipments by a mine employee using carrier pigeons. But the next message reveals his true identity and he is made a prisoner.

Rangers Dave and Panhandle arrive and are joined by Lawyer Tex to try and stop the range war between the ranchers and the sheep men. After they jail the ranchers for attacking the sheep men, they are lead away from town by a decoy as the real culprits head for town to kill the ranchers and blame the sheep men.

Hoppy and his pals accompany the Grants to Saudi Arabia to buy horses. When the Karitga’s have El Kader kidnap Charles Grant for ransom, Hoppy engineers his rescue. When they return to the Sheik’s camp, El Kader and his men attack.

As the Pecos Kid and pals Pancho and Juan flee from the Sheriff, Juan is killed. Juan was returning home after a long absence and when the other two arrive, Juan’s blind mother mistakes the Kid for her son. Unable to tell her the truth they stay on. But there is trouble when the Kid’s former partner arrives and threatens to expose him unless he is allowed to rustle the old lady’s cattle.

Harris and Rigby own a circus. Rigby is a counterfeiter and frames his partner. The Mesquiteers learn Rigby is the culprit and get a confession from one of his men only to lose the case when the man is murdered in jail. The Mesquiteers try again and send Lullaby to try and win some of the fake bills in a card game.

During the Great Depression, when natural catastrophes including floods destroy the homes of thousands,.crooked, con man Phineas Flagg buys up all the ranches in Arizona’s Gunsmoke Valley at the bargain price of $2 per acre. The displaced families are only too happy to buy what Flagg misrepresents as 40 acres of prime farmland per family at the bargain price of $50 an acre. What he doesn’t tell the migrants is that the entire area has been condemned under the law of eminent domain and will soon be flooded for the construction of a new dam. The group’s leader, Judge Warren, initially disregards the Mesquiteers’ warnings that they’re being conned,, but Stony’ romances his beautiful granddaughter Marion,, and the settlers accept the Mesquiteers’ help,, but is it too late?

Working undercover, Marshals Nevada and Sandy are looking for jewel smugglers along the border. Posing as a nearly deaf man, Sandy gets a job as the wagon driver that picks up pottery. When he breaks a piece of pottery the jewels hidden inside are revealed.