Dates
- Cover date
- June - August 1957
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Saguaro National Monument · 1 pages
Describing the giant saguaro cacti that cover sixty thousand acres of Arizona desert, and how they are used by Indians and animals.
- 30,000 on the Hoof · 27 pages
Logan and Lucinda. Ranch, family, horses, cattle. Campbells, knives, try rob stock. Three Huett sons prevail. Daughter Babs was adopted, marries brother Abe. Sons volunteer for WWI. Logan waits until the beeves price is high, seeks war profits, takes wrapped cash to pridefully show off, buyer is a swindle, Logan gets newspaper, loses a million, all he had. George and Grant are killed in the war; Abe is M.I.A. Babs, left with the baby, is grief-stricken. Abe returns, and reports fifteen hundred head of cattle in the pasture, all Huett cattle. The Huetts are in business again.
- Desert Death Trap · 1 pages
Dave has his gold dust in his money belt, but the Indians took his horse and canteen to prevent his leaving once he cleaned out the pocket of gold they covet. Filling his boots with water he creeps at night toward the sacred taboo cliff ruins. A pebble betrays him, he saves one bootful and reaches the safety of a prehistoric tower. Inside he will be trapped as the superstitious Indians will play a waiting game, but he finds a hidden passage, and escapes to hike barefoot with gold and water toward the nearest trading post.
- Black Bart, the Robber Poet · 4 pages
Schoolteacher Boles changes careers. As C. E. Bolton he banked his loot in San Francisco. Thirty odd robberies, never of passengers, only express boxes, carefully planned, using a shotgun he never fired (some believe was not even loaded), wearing a linen duster, masked with a flour sack. He would put the loot in the sack, and leave a poem in the empty express box. His undoing came when a hunter heard him pounding on the box; the driver took the hunter's gun, and fired. Bart dropped a cuff. A detective traced it to Bart's laundy, and he was arrested, did six years. Some say he became a farmer.
- Rounding up Outlaw Cattle... · 1 pages
Five panels with captions show and tell the difficulties of the cowboy's task of rounding up rogue steers, outlaw cattle.
- Bill Tilghman · 1 pages
Marshal Bill Tilghman, who helped break up the infamous Doolin Gang, may on one occasion have owed Doolin his life. On a cold night Tilghman entered a cabin and warmed his hands by the fire. Guns aimed at his back from bunks. Steel nerves, he warmed, walked out. One gunman followed to kill him, but Doolin, inspired to chivalry by the lawman's grit, stayed the gunman's hand.
Reprinted in
Zane Grey's Western Annual (1965)