The Last Days of Horse Shy Halloran

Things are heating up in Big Coulee. Unorthodox road agent Horse-shy Halloran, who got his name because horses always do him dirt, has been seen in town buying women's clothing. The gold miners' association is about to ship 70,000 of gold dust. The brutal and fearsome Burgoyne brothers are in the neighborhood. And Wells Fargo agent Samuel Quarternight has fallen in love with the banker's daughter, Faye. Halloran just wants to make off with the gold, but he gets far more deeply involved with this cast than he'd like and becomes an unwilling and thoroughly despised hero.

The factors working against Horse-Shy Halloran's plan to rob a Wells Fargo stagecoach are the arrival of detective Sam Quarternight, a second gang of robbers, and a series of mishaps that make Halloran an accidental hero.