Cisco and Pancho enlist the aid of the grandson of a female denizen of a ghost town taken hostage by a gang of payroll robbers because the grandson has at the ready a system of numerous ingenious booby traps ready to subdue the gang.
Cisco and Pancho attempt to thwart a crooked rancher's plan to fool a local tribe into assisting him in preventing construction of a railroad line through land the rancher wants to use.
Cisco and Pancho help a newspaper editor who's caught in the middle of an important election fight between a crooked mayor trying to hold on to power and a young reformer.
A gunman is hired to kill Cisco; however, during an explosion the killer dies and Cisco survives. Cisco then takes the gunman's place by covering his face with a bandage.
While searching for a severely ill Mexican child, Cisco and Pancho uncover a plot by a rancher to contaminate land with disease-infected animals so he can buy it cheap.
A crooked land official has henchmen stage fake Indian attacks to acquire the property of alarmed local citizens at deeply discounted prices because the official hopes to profit from his knowledge a pending government project.
Cisco and Pancho are asked to deliver the death certificate of Gus Brown, an old miner, to the town of Sweetwater. They discover that Brown has left all of his property to his best friend--his dog.
Pancho's nephew is the witness to a murder and identifies the killer, who is arrested. When the circuit judge arrives for the trial, he is actually one of the killer's friends, who is impersonating the real judge in an effort to free his buddy.
A blacksmith attempts to invent an iron plow to till the hard earth. Ranchers believe farmers are stealing cattle to survive. After Cisco is injured he sends Pancho to investigate.