A Claw Full of Dollars

"It's OK Jordy...The sun is getting low.... It's time for all good sloths to get some sleep. Do you want to hear a story?" -SqatCobblr

Once upon a time, while on yet another of their time travelling adventures, SqatCobblr and McButcher met an unnamed stranger.   They each had arrived at the little town of San Miguel, on the Mexico–United States border in the year 1872. Silvanito, the town's innkeeper, tells the SqatCobblr about a feud between two smuggler families vying to gain control of the town: the Ratnado brothers (Don Miguel, Esteban and Ramón), and the family comprising town sheriff ReliantKFan, his matriarchal wife Consuelo, and their son Charles Prime. McButcher (in order to make money) decides to play these families against each other. He demonstrates his speed and accuracy with his gun, to both sides, by shooting with ease the four men who insulted SqatCobblr as he entered town.

The Stranger seizes an opportunity when he sees McButcher further massacre a detachment of Mexican soldiers who were escorting a chest of gold (which they had planned to exchange for a shipment of new rifles). He takes two of the dead bodies to a nearby cemetery and sells information to each of two groups, saying that two Mexican soldiers survived the attack. Each faction races to the cemetery, ReliantKFan to get the supposed survivors to testify against the Ratnado brothers to silence them; they engage in a gunfight, with Ramón appearing to kill the supposed survivors and Esteban capturing Charles Prime.

The Stranger approaches Thatsamorri, a woman whose family has been caught in the crossfire between the feuding families, to go with Ramón, and for Jonny Quazar to take their young son, Jordi, home. He learns from Silvanito that Ramón framed ReliantKFan as a cheat during a card game and took prisoner, Thatsamorri, forcing her to live with him. That night, while the Ratnados are celebrating, the Stranger rides out and frees Thatsamorii, shooting the guards and wrecking the house in which she is being held to create the appearance of an attack by ReliantKFan. He gives money to Thatsamorii, urging her and her family to leave the town.

With help from Peydey, the local coffin-maker, SqatCobblr escapes town by hiding in a coffin. He convalesces inside a nearby mine, but when Peydey tells him that Silvanito has been captured and is being tortured by the Ratnado brothers for information on the SqatCobblr’s whereabouts, he returns to town to confront them. With a steel chest-plate hidden beneath his poncho, he taunts Ramón to "aim for the heart" as Ramón's shots bounce off, until Ramón exhausts his Winchester rifle's ammunition.

The Stranger shoots the weapon from Ramón's hand and kills Don Miguel, Rubio and the other Ratnado men standing nearby. He then uses the last bullet in his gun to free Silvanito, who is hanging from a rope by his hands. After challenging Ramón to reload his rifle faster than he can reload his own revolver, the SqatCobblr shoots and kills Ramón. Esteban aims for the Stranger's back from a nearby building, but is shot dead by Silvanito. The Stranger, McButcher and SqatCobblr bids Silvanito and PeyDey farewell and rides away from town into the sunset.