Revolver Billy in Texas

This 1891 Beadle and Adams publication features "Revolver Billy in Texas: The Lone Star State Rangers" by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, author of Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill stories. The serial follows fifteen-year-old Billy Miranda, a skilled marksman with gold-mounted revolvers, through a chaotic prairie engagement. Billy flees from Comanche pursuers toward a timber camp, expecting to find Texas Rangers but instead encountering a band of Mexican bandits led by a refined, silver-adorned caballero. After a fierce firefight between the bandits and Comanches, Texas Rangers arrive and scatter both groups. Billy finds himself bound between two dead Mexican gunmen, abandoned on the prairie with approaching coyotes. The narrative emphasizes action, gunplay, and frontier survival amid competing Mexican bandits, Native American warriors, and American Rangers.