Dates
- Cover date
- December 1948
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Untitled · 16 pages
The crooked Jake Barton is trying to be elected Sheriff by using methods as crooked as himself.
- Bunk House; Vaquero; Hair Brand · Red Ryder's Corral of Western Lingo · 2 pages
Drawings and text explaining many western words and expressions.
- Untitled · 5.75 pages
Igor, a wrestler, has fallen in love with Toby, a rich society girl he has never met. He will defend his title in the stadium, but is watching the girl ringside more than his opponent, the Mad Mauler, and loses his title. In the dressing room he kills his manager in a quarrel.
- Little Beaver Cuts Loose · 2 pages
Three Toes killed Gowdry's Colt; Little Beaver is delighted. Red rides to alert Gowdry. LB dislikes Gus; he and Po-ko embark to drive the cougar away, so Gus and his dogs will fail. They get a tree-top view. Three Toes, fleeing Gowdry's hounds, climbs the same tree. Gowdry beans Red with his gun butt, ropes Three Toes by a hind leg, drags Red under the dangling cat, then brags they'll find a man killed by a cougar, and he'll get the ranch for a song. Three Toes, cut loose by LB's arrow, drops on Gowdry, spitting fury. Gowdry backs to the gorge's edge, and fires; man and cat plummet.
- Billy's Perilous Heroism · 6 pages
Shots ring out! Billy and Sandy deliver the gold per Ted's instructions. Billy returns for Ted, finds a blood trail to cliff's edge, floats downriver on a log. There's no purchase along the riverside's cliff walls, until he finds Ted lying delirious on a small hidden opening of sandy beach. He makes a raft, ties Ted to it, swims, steers. The rapids nigh kill them; they win through. Chet and Doc rejoice at the gold. Ben arrives: Billy brought Ted home! Doc goes to tend the boys. Clutching her hankie, tears on her cheek, Sandy prays God thanks.