The Hanging Tree

The story of Hannibal Brinks and Stumpy Smith continues.Hannibal and Stumpy travel to Kansas and purchase Amos, a prized shorthorn bull to breed their cattle.Rustlers try to steal the prize bull, and pay for their folly at the end of a rope on a giant catalpa tree on the ranch.Stumpy rescues a girl from Comancheros and then fights the Comanche Iron Kettle and his braves to get back home. He ends up keeping the Indian alive and hangs him from the giant catalpa tree.A demented preacher hires men to kidnap the girl Stumpy rescued. Billy and Tipi Kunkle have horses stolen. He and Todd go after the thieves and hang the one that survived the gunfight on a giant gambel oak tree.Hannibal and Stumpy head out on another cattle drive to the mining fields, only to face a new adversary.