The Galloping Kid

A sun-scorched parable of reluctant guardianship, The Galloping Kid unleashes cowboy Simplex Cox—part saddle-tramp, part accidental philosopher—onto the vast, rattlesnake-laced canvas of the Arnett spread. His charge: Laura Arnett, a prairie siren whose heart ricochets like a .30-30 slug the instant any male pulse flickers. Cox, immune to her meteoric crushes, is tasked with forestalling every flirtation; yet destiny, wearing the snakeskin boots of Hubert Bolston, sidles in. Bolston, urbane as a patent-leather Bible, drips honeyed promises while fingering a secret map that betrays a platinum ribbon stitched beneath the Arnett dust. Cox sniffs sulfur under the cologne, gallops into crusade mode, and in doing so ignites Laura’s scorn hotter than a branding iron. Stakes sharpen when the land’s subterranean treasure surfaces in Bolston’s gaze, turning courtship into claim-jumping and matrimony into manifest destiny. What follows is a cyclone of stampedes, poker-table confessions, moonlit sabotage, and a final showdown where love, land, and identity collide under a sky so wide it could swallow every myth the West ever birthed.