
Hoby rides into Alpine, Texas looking for a friend. He finds instead a hatred for the Texas Rangers-- and the entire town sides against him to drive him out.

Hoby tracks down a missing florist with a rare orchid, who may hold the key to missing bank money and three fugitive bank robbers.

Hoby tracks the murderer of a married man who may have been ready to leave his wife for another woman.

Hoby is dispatched to Del Rio to investigate a bank robbery. He poses as a criminal to trick one of the bank robbers to lead him to the the rest of the gang and the money.

Hoby is forced to arrest the wild son of a local judge for murder, the kid telling him all the while he'll never stand trial.

Hoby has to nursemaid a witness from El Paso who's in hiding until the big murder trial in three weeks.

Hoby gets on the bad side of town when he assists in freeing what he thinks is an innocent man. However, once acquitted, the killer admits his guilt only to the Ranger and makes his life much worse.

Hoby has to deal with a notorious outlaw/killer who is holding a runaway town boy for ransom.

Hoby has to deal with a jailbreak-- except the cowboy doesn't leave-- he takes three hostages and tries to work a trade-- them for the Ranger!