New Strike they called it—a boom town where two overworked lawmen fought hard to maintain the peace, where no decent woman was safe, until ...Larry and Stretch, the West's toughest trouble-shooters, rode in to challenge the rowdies, the card-sharps, the plotters and killers of the hell-town.This was to be a fight to the finish. A tinhorn had been murdered and, unless the Texans could unmask the killer, the wrong man might hang. The odds were against the Lone Star Hellions, but they would never back down.

At Showdown-Time, The Big Man Needed A MiracleWas this to be the last ride of Big Jim Rand? The killers awaited him dead ahead. Another of them rode directly behind him, covering him. And, inside the disused shack, a desperate woman risked her life to give Jim a fighting chance of survival.Big Jim had become a target for the professional assassins, because his quarry, the elusive and badly scared Jenner, had posted bounty on him. As well as the professionals, a trio of inept amateurs invited themselves to the ruckus, injecting humor into an otherwise grim situation.

From the moment they crossed the line and entered Beck County, Larry and Stretch were fated to risk their lives in a bloody battle with the lawless. Carew Canyon—a rich prize—was thrown open for a land-rush, and the West's toughest trouble-shooters were caught in a web of intrigue, forced to ride in the roughest, most grueling race known to man.Here are the Lone Star Hellions at their rough and ready best, bedeviling the forces of law and order, challenging the thieves and killers of a wild frontier and adding another hectic chapter to the story of their violent career.

To Reach The Bridge ... The Killers Had To Get Past Big Jim!Beyond that bridge was the west bank of the Rio Colorado — beyond that the Utah border, and safety for the six gunmen who had looted the Delandro bank and ended the career of a veteran lawman. Between the outlaws and that bridge stood Kell Garrard, gambler, man-hunter, son of the murdered sheriff, and Hurst, the dead sheriff's loyal deputy, and grinning Benito Espina, who was never really loyal to anybody.And last, but never the least, the tall, tough and formidable Jim Rand, the relentless avenger whose deadly gun-skill was destined to increase the odds against escape.

From Illinois to Wyoming, the Lone Star Hellions grappled with the enigma of a beautiful, headstrong woman and the man hired to murder her, the man whose identity was a tight secret. At Omaha, Marshal Jefford boarded the Special, to escort a captured outlaw to the Laramie calaboose, and an already complicated situation became fraught with intrigue, danger, the threat of sudden death. Here are Larry and Stretch, the West's toughest trouble-shooters, at their free-swinging, trigger-fast best, risking their lives in a violent showdown. And Death rides the rails right alongside them!

Like a black cloud, the threat of sudden death hung over Ortega, implacable; malevolent; ominous. The distraught mother of an executed killer had put a curse on the jury that convicted him. All twelve would die, she vowed. Three had already died, when Big Jim Rand and the itchy-fingered Benito Espina arrived. Was the curse working? The tough ex-sergeant of the 11th Cavalry refused to believe in witchcraft. With no regard for the danger that threatened him, he stayed to challenge a cunning conspiracy to fight and win in a conflict of hard fists and blazing .45s.

In the Arizona Territory, Bosworth County was in a state of tension, its citizens living in fear. Six soldiers and two civilians had been wantonly murdered. An entire shipment of repeating rifles, capable of swift and accurate fire, had been hijacked.Army Intelligence was baffled. The county law officers were becoming desperate. And then, as quietly as a raging Texas tornado, Larry and Stretch arrived. The West's rowdiest troubleshooters were buying into a grim intrigue ready to risk their lives in a fight to the finish against the forces of lawlessness.

Two could play the same game ... and end up face to face!Big Jim used to be Sergeant Rand of the 11th Cavalry. Now, as a civilian, he was on the trail of his brother's killer. When he rides into the town of Frankston in Northwestern Kansas, he soon finds himself on the trail of a gang of merciless desperadoes. For a disguise, those outlaws were using the uniform of the U.S. Army. The big man decided upon an equally unique disguise, and penetrated the lair of the lawless in a suit of sober black; he toted a Bible in one hand, a long-barreled Colt .45 in the other. And, as ever, aided (or hampered) by his Mexican sidekick, Benito Espina, they take on the duplicitous gang.

If the killers had their way, the bride would soon be a widow...The most powerful man in the territory coveted beautiful Selma Garfield. With her wedding to Nathan Page only a few days distant, Big Jim Rand rode into San Rafael and discovered that the bridegroom was an old army acquaintance. Naturally, the big man stayed to play bodyguard to Nathan, who had been threatened with violent death by the XL bunch, the minions of the power-hungry Kane Magnus. Naturally, there had to be a fight to the finish, with the rock walls of Trinidad Canyon echoing to the gun-thunder.

Stretch Emerson plays a lone hand!It had never happened before, but it was happening now, and the taller Texan just had to face up to it. Larry Valentine was in jail, facing a trumped-up charge of murder and theft.One of the Lone Star Hellions imprisoned, wounded and helpless. The other on the loose, and ready to fight every outlaw in northern Nevada for the sake of proving his partner's innocence. This was the situation that threw Finn County into uproar.Like it or not, Stretch had to assume the role of hero, and impersonates Wild Buck Kelsey, the star of Rowdy Rufe's Frontier Show, with hectic and sometimes hilarious consequences ... but most of all, to the ultimate downfall of eight unscrupulous enemies!

"Don't count the odds." - the motto of the Lone Star Hellions. Their motto and their creed. When the odds were the greatest Larry and Stretch, those free-swinging, trouble-shooting Texans, were at their formidable best.They were ambushed and wounded by a proddy posse of volunteers led by the belligerent Sheriff Salter and, for some time thereafter, were separated. First Larry made his break, then Stretch broke out of the Ketchtown calaboose. But, after each of them had played a lone hand, the Texas drifters were reunited for the final showdown with the lawless - a company of bank robbers masquerading as clergymen.

Big Jim Rand's search for the murderer of his brother brought him to Alvarez County. At first it looked to be peaceful territory, but the big hunter and his sawn-off Mex sidekick were soon locking horns with three belligerent defenders of the peace.Here, in Alvarez, Big Jim was befriended by the beautiful and unpredictable Ruth Harnett and her father, the old hellion who had begun wreaking havoc with the Talbot Stage Line, fast earning notoriety as the Laughing Ghost.And, here, Big Jim had to appoint himself judge, prosecutor and jury to challenge and defeat a quartet of deadly desperadoes.

Tascosa, New Mexico ... a town in which many a man played a double game, watching, waiting for an explosion of violence that would signify the end of a lawless intrigue. Into Tascosa, hunting a back-shooting killer and a gang of counterfeiters, rode Big Jim Rand, the relentless manhunter. With him came Benito Espina, the busiest pickpocket north of the Rio Grande.Also figuring in this suspense-filled battle of wits were the smiling, unscrupulous Mace Carrick, and Rowenstock, the shrewd and implacable lawman, and Shelley, the undercover gun who, in the moment of crisis, had good cause to be grateful for the intervention of Big Jim.

Larry and Stretch, the West's most overworked trouble-shooters, were seeking peace and quiet, a place to rest their weary Texas heads, when they rode into the tomb-silent main street of Three Springs, South Nevada. They hadn't time to cool their saddles before the violence flared and, once again the Lone Star Hellions found themselves in the thick of a suspense-filled adventure, spiked with intrigue and the threat of sudden death. To help a troubled town, and to defy the power of twenty-four blood-thirsty bandidos, the Texans needed all their Texas savvy, their Lone Star Luck, their rock-hard fists and their booming .45s.

STRONG MEN, BRAVE WOMEN, TRIGGER-FAST OUTLAWS AND HERD OF TWO THOUSAND STAMPEDING LONGHORNS ...They all play their parts in another action-filled Larry and Stretch adventure. It began in South Wyoming, when four aces made Larry Valentine a winner—but a loser as well.The Box 7 boss was ready to drive a pay-herd into Montana Territory, and the unscrupulous Cole Banning was determined to take the herd off his hands—the hard way.Having allied themselves to Box 7, the Lone Star Hellions found themselves battling ten bloodthirsty rustlers, two thousand stampeding steers, more than a score of hired killers, and eight beautiful women. The Texans were back in business, with a vengeance.