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Genres: western

Character(s): Red Ryder; Little Beaver

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Red Ryder Ranch

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Genres: informational, non-fiction, western

Character(s): Fred Harman; Cass Hough; Bob Wesley; Kit Hough

Synopsis: Letter and photos from Fred Harman

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Genres: western

Character(s): Red Ryder; Little Beaver; Sheriff; Bart; Hitch

First Line: Hi, Sheriff!

Synopsis: Two robbers just seem to disappear after each job. Red will search the hills and the sheriff will take care of the town.

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Pages: 16

Notes: Since Fred Harman used ghost artists on the Red Ryder comic book, this one could be by John Hampton. The horses seems very similar to some in a Gene Autry Whitman book. The heavy inking may be an imitation of Fred Harman. He is credited to Red Ryder in Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

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Genres: adventure, humorous, western

Character(s): Telecomics Kid; King; Kid; Bulky; Doc; Merry

First Line: Eeoof! Am I tired!

Synopsis: King and Kid are on the trail to the diamond thieves' hideout.

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Pages: 12.75

Notes: Signed on page eleven.
The two first pages show the Telecomics Kid turning on the TV to have a look at the King story; the last page has them seeing & talking about the end of the story.

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Statement of Ownership on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Little Beaver's Bull Session

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Genres: western

Character(s): Little Beaver (Navajo youngster); Po-ko (Navajo youngster); Red Ryder (rancher); Bull; second bull; rustler in tree; Jase (other rustler in tree)

First Line: Red Ryder knotted a rope surcingle around the great bull's chest, and turned to the two Navajo kids who perched on the corral gate.

Synopsis: Po-ko dares Little Beaver to mount the wild bull that Red had tied to the post, and ride him. The bull breaks free with LB atop. A wild ride up into Kettle Canyon. Horns clash as heads butt, a challenge by another wild bull. LB is thrown. He sees Red's cow, dead, steaks fried, the guns. A disembodied voice calls for him to get the rifle. The bulls' fight ends. The nude rustlers treed while bathing are now LB's prisoners, recompense for losing Red's bull.

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Pages: 3

Notes: Du Bois entry states: "Little Beaver's Bull Session. Text for Red Ryder Comics #53. Sent July 8, 1947."

The illustration of the rustlers shows them clothed in boots, pants, suspenders, shirts; the text describes them as nude, treed by the bull after coming from bathing in the brook, their pants and boots picked up by Little Beaver.

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• Language: "surcingle" (a strap that fastens around the animal's girth. A surcingle may be used for ground training, and some types of in-hand exhibition, to stabilize the rider's weight); "taking his courage in his teeth" (To take his courage in his teeth, winning a fear; dare); "crags" (a steep or rugged cliff or rock face); "cedar brakes" (brake: An area overgrown with dense brushwood, briers, and undergrowth; a thicket); "in and out of gulches, over rim rock, up and down slopes that would daunt a wild horse ("gulch: n. a deep, narrow ravine, esp. one marking the course of a stream or torrent" - thefreedictionary.com; "Rimrock is the sheer rock wall at the upper edge of a plateau, canyon, or geological uplift" - Wikipedia; "A slope is the rise or fall of the land surface ... easy to recognize in a hilly area. ... climbing from the foot of a hill toward the top, this is called a rising slope ... downhill, this is a falling slope" - fao.org Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations); "outcroppings" ("visible exposures of bedrock are called outcroppings" - nationalgeographic.org); "scrub trees" (scrub oak, any of several small shrubby trees in the beech family, native to dry soils in North America. ... The Rocky Mountain scrub oak grows up to 30 feet tall" - britannica.com); "from a wooded ravine" ("ravine: a narrow, steep sided crevice, smaller than a valley, larger than a gully, formed by the action of running water" - allthingsnature.org); "grub-hooks" ("grub hooks n. [1920s+] (US) fingers or hands" Cassell's Dictionary of Slang googlebooks.com)

• Animals: "the great bull's chest"; "that ornery brute"; "the bull---a fierce long-legged, long-horned, old outlaw"; "An old 'mossy-horned' wild bull"; "Grunting and snorting, the long-horn fought the rope that bound his head to the post"; "like a wildcat"; "the old 'mossy-horn' went into convulsions"; "the half-ton brute headed for the open range"; "slopes that would daunt a wild horse"; "his tail was kinked over his back, and his great head swung low. He was still mad"; "another bull was challenging"; "the second bull was a whopper, too"; "jabbing his horns into the dust and pawing earth up over his back"; "a dead cow"; "they surged in a battle of giants."

• Peoples of the World: "the two Navajo kids who perched on the corral gate"; "Navajo kids---like any other kids--- are that way."

• Nature: "Kettle Canyon"; "the open range"; "the crags and cedar brakes of wild Kettle Canyon"; "brush and tree limbs whipped"; "Dust rose and loose stones flew"; "in and out of gulches, over rim rock, up and down slopes that would daunt a wild horse"; "Kettle Canyon's rocky sides rose now on either side. This was country so broken with jagged outcroppings of rock and choked with scrub trees"; "a wooded ravine"; "beyond him was a little stream"; "near the brook"; "a cautious voice called from somewhere in the tree"; "the man in the tree."

• didacticism: "The knots held. But they had been so cleverly tied that a single hard jerk on the rope's end that led to the surcingle would free the captive."

• Race: "'Hey, Injun!' a cautious voice called"; "the little brown warrior"; "the two rustlers stood scowling ... 'Listen, Injun,' one of them growled."

The Shepherd's Sacrifice

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Genres: western

Feature(s): The Kiyotee Kids

Character(s): Pepe Fulano (a shepherd); Ted Lucas (Kiyotee, kid); outlaws' horses (referenced); Gib (a Selden outlaw); Silk Selden (bank robber, gambler, killer); outlaw gang; Pepe's / Ted's horse (word balloon); Billy Haynes (Kiyotee, kid); Sandy Rivers (Kiyotee, kid); Sheriff Simms; "Judge" Tobey (a Selden outlaw); flock of sheep; Sheep 1 (word balloon); Sheep 2 (word balloon); Standing Horse (Apache); Sheriff's posse's ponies (referenced)

First Line: On Ted Lucas's horse and wearing Ted's clothes, Pepe the sheep herder hears the approach of unknown riders.

Synopsis: The outlaws shoot Pepe. He rides wounded to get Ted's message through. He bleeds out. Billy finds him, and Ted's message. He buries Pepe, rides back, alerts Sandy: Ted is a spy in the enemy camp, disguised as a sheep herder. She worries for Ted, writes a Coyote note to the sheriff. Ted hears Silk plan a bank job raid on Alkali Town tonight. Silk binds him. An Apache frees Ted, requests a sheep. Ted gives two. Coming on the sheriff, Ted says he's Pepe, the outlaws have passed them in the night: return to Alkali. The sheriff, thinking it's Pepe's ghost, complies. Ted finds Pepe's grave.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Harry Parkhurst is credited to this series in Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Signed in last panel.

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Genres: humorous, western

Feature(s): Panamint Patty

Character(s): Panamint Patty; Bareface; Gatney; Little Neck

First Line: Oh, thu grey-haired muther...

Synopsis: Two outlaws are sneaking up on Patty when he plays the guitar and sings.

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Pages: 8

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Genres: western

Character(s): Kit Hough; Cass Hough; Fred Harman; Lola Harman; Chief Langworhty

First Line: Here's more Red Ryder Ranch photos...

Synopsis: Photographs from the Red Ryder Ranch with comments.

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Fred Harman, creator of Red Ryder...

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Genres: western

Character(s): Fred Harman; Thunder (horse)

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Notes: Back cover.