"Don't Count the Odds!" It was the motto of the Lone Star Hellions.

Their motto and their creed. When the odds were 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 in his usual devil-may-care style.

But after each of them had played a lone hand, the Texas drifters were reunited in time for the final showdown with the lawless ... a company of bank robbers masquerading as clergymen!

THE TOWN WAS WILD ... THE MEN WERE WILDER ...

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.

The old sheriff had to quit ... and three men hungered to inherit the tin star.

That was how it began for Larry and Stretch, the drifting free-swinging trouble-shooters from the Lone Star State. Bayone County was about to elect a new sheriff, and the Texans had their own ideas as to who most deserved the coveted badge.

To steal the horses of the Lone Star Hellions was to invite disaster. Larry and Stretch had a personal score to settle with the obsessed Wes Howland, vengeance-hungry killer who kidnapped a cattle baron's daughter and held her for ransom.

Fists fly, guns roar, and Larry and Stretch are at it again, sharing the dangers that confronted the deputy destined to become a tin star target.

The indestructible Larry and Stretch were plunged into a maelstrom of mystery, mayhem and mirth, when they rode out of Nebraska to hunt the elusive Kell Wade.

What kind of man was Wade? Was he saint or sinner, gentleman or gunman, law-abiding citizen or dangerous desperado? Wherever they turned, the Texans came up against the enigma of the fugitive's double personality.

Here is a new challenge for the quick-witted Larry Valentine, a new reason for the hard-fisted Stretch Emerson to risk life and limb in a trigger-fast conflict with five desperate men who all shared the same guilty secret.

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!

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.

THE STAKES WERE HIGH AND DANGER RODE IN THEIR SHADOW!

The owlhoot pack was moving north, led by Craig Harnsey, the audacious bandit who had fooled the lawmen of Winfield County. Their destination was a lonely section of the railroad route, their goal a bank strongbox. In hot pursuit came Larry and Stretch, the West's busiest troubleshooters, ignoring the risks and plunging headlong into danger.

Also involved in this hectic adventure were the misfits—Homer Peck, the jilted railroad guard embarking on a brief career of grand larceny; Burch Tatum Junior, the clumsiest Ranger ever to ride out of the Lone Star State; Red Ruthy, the salty ranch girl who hankered to tangle with a horse thief.

With amiable drifters Larry Valentine and Stretch Emerson as her escort, a beautiful redhead ran the gauntlet of death, travelling many a violent mile to give her testimony in court. Only the boss-outlaw had been captured. The rest of the Sharkey gang was still at large ... and gunning for her!

Here was a test of nerve and strength, a challenge no Texan could ignore. When the danger was greatest, the drifters battled on, out-shooting the lawless and thumbing their noses at law and order!

The outlaws were begging for trouble when they challenged the Texas Hell-raisers! Larry and Stretch couldn't stand by and see the honest citizens of Widow's Peak swindled by the unscrupulous Jay Endean. The boss-thief was selling worthless railroad stock, and courting Tess Hapgood—the girl they called Arizona Wild-Cat.

With fast guns, hard fists and Lone Star luck, the Texans declared war, exposing the plotters for what they really were, and in so doing the stage was set for a violent showdown. They were two against many, but Larry and Stretch had no quit in them. They were in this fight to win, or die trying!

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.

TEXANS STICK TOGETHER … IN A FIGHT TO THE FINISH

Utah Territory was a long way from the Lone Star State, but Larry and Stretch found other Texans there—a worried squaw man and a beautiful redhead—fellow Texans in need of their help. Once again, the Nomads from Texas find, themselves involved in danger, intrigue and sudden death—distrusted by the forces of law and order—opposed by the entire 9th Cavalry - challenged by the lawless.

Larry Valentine could never turn his back on a mystery, or a fight. With Stretch Emerson as his willing shadow, and a New York journalist as interested observer, hard-hitting Larry once again proves that outlaws can't win, when they challenge the Lone Star Hellions …

Hit the danger trail with Larry and Stretch ... and ride out shooting!

The battle of Moon Mountain might have been the Texans' last fight. Their luck had run out, but they were still defiant, as tough as ever, and a force to be reckoned with.

Once again, the West's rowdiest trouble-shooters are up to their Texas ears in violence, intrigue and sudden death. Once again, the fists fly and the guns roar. Once again, the lawless get more than they bargained for, in a hectic fight to the finish with the Lone Star Bravados.

Their names were on the bullets!

Larry and Stretch, the West's toughest trouble-shooters, came to Tyson City to solve a mystery, but their short stay almost became permanent residency—on Boot Hill.

Somebody wanted them dead. They didn't know who. They didn't know why. Riflemen sniped at them from the windswept peaks of the high country. A knife was hurled through an open window to miss Stretch Emerson by mere inches. And Larry Valentine was trapped in a burning shack by anonymous assassins. The Texans had never run from a fight, and never would. They stayed to protect the beautiful Margo Farnol, to bedevil the confused Sheriff Jennings and to trigger a showdown with the local lawless—Lone Star style!

A whip-crack was the overture — and gun-thunder was the finale to another wild and hilarious escapade of the hard-punching, fast-shooting hell-raisers from Texas. Larry and Stretch came to Horton County for peace and quiet, but found intrigue, danger and gun-trouble.

The Governor of Colorado was being blackmailed by the urbane and treacherous Philo Brayner, who planned a bank robbery and a safe getaway. But the thieves reckoned without the West's toughest trouble-shooters.

The Texans played it quiet—until the final shooting showdown.

It looked like a quiet town, but it pretty soon erupted into violence!

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.

It looked like a quiet town, but it pretty soon erupted into violence!

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.

It Began In The Merciless Desert … And Ended In The Ghost Town

Haunted by a sharp-shooting ghost, deserted Fortuna offered no warm welcome to the Lone Star Hellions and their new allies — three desperate men and four frightened women left to die in the arid heart of the Big Amarillo.

Also in need of shelter were the infamous Cleave Elrigg and his trigger- happy cohorts — six escapees from the Pima Valley Prison, who were determined never to be recaptured.

The climax, an explosion of violence and mayhem, echoed to every corner of the ghost town, with the West's toughest trouble-shooters well to the fore of the fray.

STRETCH EMERSON … PLAYING 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 of North Nevada for the sake of proving his partner's innocence. This was the situation that threw Finn County into uproar.

In this hard-hitting western, the popular Stretch Emerson assumes the role of hero and impersonates Wild Buck Kelsey, the star of Rowdy Rufe's Frontier Show, with hectic and hilarious consequences, and to the ultimate downfall of eight unscrupulous enemies.