Frontier Western #7

Dates

Cover date

February 1957

Pages

36

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• Dead or Alive! · 5 pages

  Crag Yurdon shoots Fargo deputy Tom Nesbitt, then robs the bank. He rides off, but Nesbitt is still alive and names his attacker. A posse forms, wanted posters are printed and posted and Yurdon can find none of his former friends or acquaintances who will give him aid.

• Town Without a Name · 2 pages
• Gun-Shy! · 5 pages

  Moose Harper and Ben Smith own adjoining spreads. Harper is a vicious bully, while Smith doesn't wear a gun and tries to be reasonable when sorting out disputes. His wife leaves him a note telling she can no longer live with a man who is gun shy. He pursues her and sees two men attacking the stage she is on. Despite being unarmed he charges down on them, manages to wrest a gun from one, and shoots. One of them proves to be Moose Harper. All present hail his courage and Nancy rushes back into his arms.

• The Deputy! · 4 pages

  Rain Cloud wants to become a deputy sheriff, but he is a victim of racial prejudice and no one will take him seriously. Finally, he gives his life to save the sheriff from being murdered.

• Hoofs of Doom! · 4 pages

  Martin Cassidy spies a beautiful wild black stallion and determines to capture it for his own.

• Return of the Gunfighter! · 5 pages

  Fargo Dalton is sentenced to three years in the state penitentiary. Having served his time he returns to seek out the sheriff who arrested him. But rather than wanting revenge, he thanks the sheriff for setting him on a straight path, and is made deputy.

Reprinted in

Rawhide Kid (1970)