The Pinkerton Man
After Jess leaves the town of Winston and the beautiful young woman named Claudia, he’s hot on the hunt for the next wanted man on his list, Jeremiah Clement. His hunt takes him through several towns.
When he finally tracks Clement down, he takes the body back to the town of Decatur for the bounty, only to find out that the bank there has been robbed. He and the marshal of Decatur set out to find the two bank robbers, along with the help of the huge timber wolf, Shadow. They soon discover that the two robbers seem to have planned the robbery meticulously.
When the hunt takes them to the town of Harrisburg, they meet a Pinkerton agent who’s been assigned to find four men who’ve robbed three trains. He asks for help, but neither Jess nor the marshal from Decatur are willing to break off the hunt for the bank robbers.
When Jess and the marshal return to Harrisburg, the Pinkerton agent must make the decision about asking for Jess’s help again.
Avery’s Folly
After leaving Charleston, Texas, Jess is back on the trail for the next man on his hunt list. Kyle Horton had last been seen in the town of Winston. When Jess finally arrives in Winston, he doesn’t find Horton, but he does find a very attractive woman named Claudia. He immediately takes a liking to her.
While there, he meets a cattle rancher by the name of Marvin Avery. He offers Jess a substantial amount of money to protect him from an old business partner who he claims is attempting to have him killed over past disputes.
Jess doesn’t need the money, but he decides to take the job of protecting Avery for one reason only…to help Claudia financially.
Jess proves his worth by saving Avery’s life several times.
Troubled Town
Benson’s Blunder
Jess leaves Townsend, Texas, and heads to Sycamore in search of the next man on his hunt list, a killer by the name of Dan Fletcher, but Fletcher isn’t there. While in Sycamore, he runs into two troublemakers who’ve wreaked havoc on the town. They end up challenging Jess and he kills them both.
He befriends a woman, Belinda, who owns and runs the hotel in Sycamore with the help of a young boy by the name of Jamie. He helps the two of them.
He finds out that the two troublemakers worked for a rich cattle rancher by the name of Claude Benson, a man with a bad attitude and enough money to always get his way. Benson comes into town and confronts Jess, but Jess has dealt with men like him before.
After finding Fletcher in the town of Hillsdale, he takes the body to the town of Holland to turn in for the bounty. He receives a message that Benson has caused more trouble because of what Jess had done.
He returns to Sycamore and confronts Benson, giving him a stern warning, but Benson is a man used to getting his way all the time. Benson hires men to kill Jess. The battle between Jess and Benson begins…and Jess is not a man who likes to lose.
Way of the Gun
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Jess is on the hunt for the next killer on his list, Carsten Lowley. His pursuit takes him to the town of Liberty where he meets a young boy, Buddy, and his mother, Lydia. He discovers that the Bratcher brothers killed Lydia’s husband, Buddy’s father. He agrees to hunt the brothers down and takes Lydia with him.
Along the way, he discovers that the brothers have murdered another man, leaving the widow beaten and afraid to go back to her cabin outside the town of Tundra. Jess and Lydia meet with her, and she confirms that the brothers are the ones who killed her husband.
Jess eventually finds and kills both Bratcher brothers and then continues his hunt for Carsten Lowley. A gunfighter by the name of Marvin Birmingham finds Jess but struggles with the idea of challenging him.
Jess ends up in the town of Ludlow, where he meets United States Marshal Bob Brady, who’s there to take a prisoner from the jail and transport him. Brady is murdered along the way and Frank Reedy assigns Jess the job of hunting down the man who did the killing.
Jess deputizes Birmingham and takes him on the hunt.