Beadle's Dime Library No. 852

# Museum Catalog Entry

"The Stranger Sport's Shake-up at Red Bend," by Wm. R. Kyster, appears in this 1895 issue of Beadle & Adams' pulp weekly. The Western serial follows the shooting of Dan Garland, a skilled gunfighter riding his prized bay horse Firebug. Two mountain sentinels witness a lurking man shoot Garland from ambush, causing him to fall from his horse into a gorge. The assassin captures the fleeing Firebug and rides away. When the sentinels investigate, they find no body—suggesting Garland survived. A fourteen-year-old messenger named Cherry Bite arrives with orders for the sentinels to report to their captain, dismissing their account as typical confusion. Cherry Bite discovers blood on the rocks, indicating Garland was indeed wounded, complicating the apparent success of the assassination plot.