Dates
- Cover date
- December 1956 - February 1957
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Forests of Stone · 1 pages
The petrified forest in the desert valley surrounded by Circle Cliffs in Utah.
- The Trail Driver · 27 pages
June, 1871. Cattleman Brite takes on Reddie as horse wrangler. Cattle drive. Chisholm Trail. Foreman Joe spanks Reddie, ignorant she's a girl of 16. Wallen murdered her dad. He and Hite demand to take her. Joe outguns Hite. Brite adopts Reddie. Drovers witness his will, all to her. Hite & co. take part of the herd. 20 Comanche attack emigrant wagons. Two survive: John Hardy and daughter Ann. Mose reports Hite took the cattle while the hands fought Comanche. Tex and the boys foil the villains. Hite escapes. Reddie loves Tex. Trail's end in Dodge. Hite dies drawing on Tex. Lovebirds will wed.
- New Sheriff · 1 pages
Blake complains he did his best, but he's no gun-hand, and that the only reason Mason could have courage against the lawless element is because he has two guns and is expert with both hands. Half the gunmen have left already. Mason arrives, ignores gunman Bull who awaits to face him. So unnerved by Mason's unconcern, Bull bolts, and the rest follow. Mason asks directions, reveals one gun is empty, and the other has temporarily blinded him when it misfired and broke. He rode in town, blinded, no bullets, knowing gunmen were looking to take him on. What courage!
- The Cooney Saga · 4 pages
Ex-Cavalry Sergeant James C. Cooney returns to Mineral Creek where he spotted silver during a cavalry detail in the 1870s. A rich strike. Word leaks. Miners stampede. Mining camp of Mogollon Springs. Apaches plan a massacre. Folks gather at settler Roberts' cabin. Cooney and Chick arrive. Apache attack is 1 or 2 days off. Agnes, a teen, sees Cooney and Chick leave to get food for the siege. Apaches cut them down. The siege ends when cavalry arrive.