Hoofbeats in My Heart

A stolen strongbox, a blameworthy Marshal Brown and an unconscious Ruby Buckaroo are all headed to an explosive finale.

The Blister and Bucket Highly First-Rate Theatrical Show decides to have their performance in the General Wilfred Cackleberry Memorial Bank, which conveniently holds the strongbox eyed by the Doc and Colonel. Marshal Brown, anxious to act in the show, is clueless — as is Ruby Buckaroo, but that's because she's collapsed again.

Yet another Pencil Pointe theatrical venue is reduced to rubble, while the bank president and posse from Wobbly Hills catch up with Ruby and her supposed partner in crime, Marshal Brown.

The Doc and Colonel arrange to employ a little red flower and some dynamite to dispose of Ruby Buckaroo. But at least Marshal Brown is cured of “Hoofbeats in His Heart.”

Ruby is wanted dead or alive, and the Doc and Colonel intend to take advantage of the first part of that offer.

After an unconscious Ruby Buckaroo is quickly dispatched from Pencil Pointe, she just as quickly returns, hell-bent on revenge against Marshal Brown. And another theatrical venue is reduced to splinters.

As the showfolk converge on the town of Pencil Pointe to perform, their proposed theater is blown to pieces. That's also what Ruby has in mind for Marshal Brown when she finds out about his new paramour.

The Doc and Colonel devise a dastardly scheme involving a strongbox and an unsuspecting Marshal Brown, all as Kody Kyoffee has now fallen for the Marshal. Oh, and did we mention that Ruby Buckaroo and her horse are galloping like the wind with an irate bank president and his posse from the town of Wobbly Hills close behind?

Ruby rides off to rob banks and distance herself from the Marshal. To forget Ruby, Marshal Brown joins The Blister and Bucket Highly First-Rate Theatrical Show. He meets singer Kody Kyoffee, which certainly helps.

Ruby Buckaroo, The Bandit Queen of the Cowboys, collapses from a mysterious illness. Traveling showmen Doc Blister and Colonel Charles Tucker Bucket provide a questionable diagnosis – that it's a reaction to Marshal Shiloh Brown, who is contagious with “Hoofbeats in His Heart.”

Ruby and the Marshal head for the hills as three of the Broken Dinner Plate Gang, along with the citizens of the now-drained town of Really Rubber Gulch, succumb to gold lust and madly scramble toward the location of Skunkweed Sam’s hidden treasure.

Ramón José, Margaret the Marauder and Jackrabbit Red leave the Marshal and Ruby stranded on the now rapidly-sinking barn.

The town of Really Rubber Gulch is flooded with the contents of the Arka-Bobba-Teeter-Tayter River. Everyone is on the move while paddling sheds, wagons, cattle, and everything else that’s been previously rubberized and afloat. The Broken Dinner Plate gang and the Marshal row in a floating barn toward the treasure.

The Broken Dinner Plate gang finally possess Skunkweed Sam’s full treasure map, Ruby Buckaroo ponders the bothersome Hoofbeats in Her Heart for both Ramón José and Marshal Brown, while the United States Cavalry and Captain Freep attend to the collapse of the Arka-Bobba-Teeter-Tayter Bridge

The United States Cavalry rides to the rescue of the town of Really Rubber Gulch as remaining gang members Ramón José and Jackrabbit Red are also misguidedly deputized by Captain Freep. Permitting law officer Ruby Buckaroo, the Bandit Queen of the Cowboys, to free Marshal Brown from his jail cell for a second time.

Ruby Buckaroo and her fellow Broken Dinner Plate gang member Margaret the Marauder are erroneously deputized by Captain Freep. The other half of the gang, Ramón José and Jackrabbit Red, are in hot pursuit of Marshal Shiloh Brown as their horses race over the Arka-Bobba-Teeter-Tayter Bridge.

Almost a victim of Ramón José but freed from his jail cell by Ruby Buckaroo, Marshal Brown is forced to ride with the Broken Dinner Plate Gang to recover the missing treasure map fragment.

Bandit Ruby is rewarded by Captain Leonardo Freep after he mistakenly jails Marshal Brown as an accomplice to the late lamented outlaw Skunkweed Sam.

Threatened by his superior officer Captain Leonardo Freep, Marshal Brown arrests Ruby Buckaroo. Meanwhile, Ramón José (El Bandido de la Melodía, the Melody Bandit) is hunting down the Marshal to recover his missing piece of Skunkweed Sam’s treasure map. Which the Marshal has since mailed to Mosquito Junction.

Is it possible that a dashing bandit rekindles a stampede of Hoofbeats in My Heart within the innards of Ruby Buckaroo, the Bandit Queen of the Cowboys? Or that Marshal Shiloh Brown holds the missing piece of Skunkweed Sam’s treasure map that is so eagerly sought by The Broken Dinner Plate Gang? Of which Ruby is a member?

It’s a festive day for a double wedding and everyone in West Buzzard’s Bottom turns out for the celebration. Well, almost everyone.

A disinfected One-Eyed Rat Saloon is transformed into a court of law. Zachariah Leech, sole owner and operator of the Buzzard’s Bottom Gazette serves as judge and attempts to get to the bottom of what’s been going on for the last 12 episodes.

Both Ruby and the Marshall independently stumble their way onto Captain Grabbeebee’s Floating Circus Barge. Will entry into the big show provide something more than entertainment? Like maybe some answers?

Marshall Shiloh Brown escapes his re-confinement as Ruby Buckaroo travels into a goldmine for some clues.

The pursuer is pursued as Marshall Shiloh Brown is chased by the entire town of West Buzzard’s Bottom, with Ruby Buckaroo leveling very serious charges indeed.

A jailbreaking Marshall Shiloh Brown happens upon three rodeo champions, the Saddle Up Sisters, and realizes he has essentially tripled the amount of hot water he is in.

Sheriff Huck Buckskin dumps Marshall Brown into the fearsome jaws of justice as a heartbroken Ruby Buckaroo teeters on the edge of the great beyond.

Ruby Buckaroon, The Bandit Queen of the Cowboys, finds herself powerless to break free from the mighty grip of Hoofbeats in Her Heart - for now

A captured Ruby Buckaroo takes to the dance floor of the Clem W. M’Dew School House and Horse Barn, forming an awkward love-triangle with her arresting officer, Marshall Shiloh Brown, and her very jealous ex-suitor Sheriff Huck Buckskin.

Marshall Brown is sufficiently recovered from the stampeding Hoofbeats in His heart to form a posse. His hunt for Ruby Buckaroo is impeded by the stampeding hoofbeats of an actual herd of cattle.

As Ruby Buckaroo is captured by Marshall Shiloh Brown, he succumbs to an inconvenient and severe case of Hoofbeats in His Heart.

The Marshall presents a warrant calling for the immediate arrest of Ruby Buckaroo. But Ruby, Sheriff Huck Buckskin and the entire town of West Buzzard’s Bottom see it a little differently.

Marshall Shiloh Brown enters the town of West Buzzard's Bottom in hot pursuit of Ruby Buckaroo, The Bandit Queen of the Cowboys