Cassidy could fan a gun like a Bill the Kid... Six rounds in three seconds was his slowest time. No one in the state of Texas could beat him. Until he met Slim Travennes, head of the Sandy Creek Vigilante Committee. Slim was snake-fast. No man could go up against him and live. No man. Hoppy could stand or die. He had no other choice. None at all.

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Buck Peters put everything he owned into the Bar-20 and thought he could make a go of it. It looked pretty good too, until he fell in with that gang of renegade buffalo hunters. There were after his spread, his cattle, his life. And they swore to let nothing stand in their way. Nothing. And then they met a cowhand named Cassidy...

Jim Meeker came down from Montana to run Texas cattle—only to find that Hoppy's Bar-20 ran the water. So when a trio of snake-mean rustlers started themselves a cattle war, the powder was primed, the guns cocked, and Hoppy was smack in the middle. So it's friend against friend, brother against brother, gun against blazing gun. Time's running out, and the range is red with blood.

"Keep your hands where I can see them!" Marshall Edwards has shouted at the outlaws across the bar. "The first man I see move, I'll drop."But he couldn't see everything. He couldn't see the outlaws behind him or the bullet he took in the back.But Hoppy would see them—every single one of them. you could count on it. he would hunt them down if it took him the rest of his life. He would find the man who killed his friend.Hoppy would see they paid.

When Buck Peters went to Montana to start a new ranch, he found his partner dead, his cowhands being slaughtered like steers, himself shot full of holes and a neighbor stealing his stock. It meant on range war. Only Hoppy could help Buck now—Hoppy, who was in Texas with a newfound bride and a ranch to run. But Hoppy had no choice. He was Buck's last hope. He had to come.

When Hopalong Cassidy's friend, Johnny Nelson, left Bar-20 searching for even greater adventure, and joined the CL Ranch, he found more than he bargained for. He found a hidden valley between Twin Buttes with over 200 of CL cattle rebranded QE. He found a gang of rustlers out to steal the rest of CL's beef. He found the country's fastest gun-fighter looking to cut him down. What he should have found was a fast way out of that valley. But Hoppy never told him how to turn tail and run.

Fun-loving cowboy Johnny Nelson had left Tin Cup in search of adventure after his friends from the Bar-20 had married. He figured women were trouble. Once they got ahold of a guy, his freedom was gone and he couldn’t have any more fun. He aimed to stay away from them. The town of Gunsight seemed like a good place to stay for a while. He could drink, gamble, spend time with the men, and there were no women around. Well, there was one—Peggy Arnold. She lived out on a ranch with her father and little brother, Charley, but she wasn't in town and she didn't trust cowboys. So he should be able to keep his distance. Things changed when Johnny was out riding and heard a shot. Rushing to the spot, he found Charley Arnold sobbing over his dead horse that had been shot when Charley was riding to get the doctor for his father. That was going too far! Any no good skunk that would shoot a good horse like that needs to be taught a lesson. So Johnny decided to come to the Arnolds' aid—even if it meant getting near Peggy. He had some ideas that should keep them from losing their ranch.

When Hoppy and Red hear that Johnny nelson has been knocked over the head and robbed of a big chunk of cash over in mesquite, they race to his aid—and are immediately framed for a bank robbery. Then the trouble really begins....

Tex Ewalt was educated before he came west and can quote Shakespeare, philosophy, and the Bible, which spices up his conversation some. He's gotten restless again and hopes to hook up with Hopalong Cassidy and Red Connors. He takes the train south to the mining town of Windsor, Kansas, and decides to stay a while and make some money playing poker. Windsor, though, is run by Gus Williams, an old enemy. The chaos that ensues leads to a fight between the miners and the railroad-and more than one gunfight.