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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published January-March 1953
Frequency Quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing George T. Delacorte, Jr. (president); Helen Meyer (vice-president); Albert P. Delacorte (vice-president)
Notes Designed, produced, and copyright 1952, by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.

Cover Details

Genre Western
Pencils Sam Savitt (painting)
Inks Sam Savitt (painting)
Colors Sam Savitt (painting)
Notes Art credit from "Sam Savitt Checklist" in Illustration Magazine Vol 1, #4, August 2002.

2 page text story "The Rock Dam"

Characters Chief Leaping Deer; Indian Agent; Crazy Jack (trader)
Synopsis Crazy Jack helps a band of Indians re-channel the only river on their new reservation so that they will be able to plant crops in the Spring.
Genre Western
Script George Haas
Letters typeset
Notes This story is printed on the inside front and back covers.

16 page Indian Chief story "The Haunted Pueblo"

Characters Cloud; Aster (both Taos tribe)
Synopsis Several Taos Indians brave a haunted pueblo to learn that it is only haunted by Apaches.
Genre Western

16 page Indian Chief story "The Trapper"

Characters Turtle; Pale Moon; Black Bear (all Chippewa)
Synopsis Several Sauk warriors are captured spying near the Chippewa camp. Turtle is tasked to watch over them. When they escape, his trapping skills are put to the test.
Genre Western

1 page illustration "The Last Cavalier"

Synopsis Reproduction of painting with this commentary: "The Last Cavalier" by Frederick Remington portrays excellently the feeling most people have about the frontiersman. He was the last of the race of gallant, mounted fighters. The artist included his foe, the Indian, among the riders in the picture.
Genre Western
Pencils Frederick Remington (painting)
Inks Frederick Remington (painting)
Colors Frederick Remington (painting)
Notes This is the back cover.