Black Fury #56

Black Fury, king of the wild mustangs, faces a brutal challenge when a powerful rival stallion enters his domain in the Mogollon Range—but a hunter's bullet threatens to end the reign of the mighty monarch before the duel can be settled. With his herd in danger and a cunning horse-killer determined to capture them, Black Fury must fight to reclaim his place and protect his own.

Black Fury faces his toughest trial yet when the brutal bronc buster Shad Waller starves and torments the stallion into submission—but a compassionate tenderfoot named Joshua Reedy witnesses the cruelty and secretly helps the magnificent horse survive. When Black Fury finally breaks free, he repays Reedy's kindness in the most unexpected way, setting off a chain of events that will test everything the city boy thought he knew about the West.

When Spanish explorers left behind horses in the New World, they unknowingly set in motion a transformation that would reshape the lives of Plains Indians forever—a young boy's discovery of a single foal cascades into a revolution of skill, abundance, and power. As these tribes master horsemanship and the buffalo herds become their lifeline, the gift of the horse elevates them into the world's greatest cavalry, fundamentally changing the trajectory of westward expansion. This historical account traces how a single accident of conquest became the catalyst for one of history's most dramatic cultural shifts.

When a pack of wolves attacks a wounded mountain lion on Black Fury's territory, the great stallion makes an unexpected choice—he drives off the predators to save his ancient enemy. But gratitude proves short-lived when the puma responds with savagery, leaving Black Fury to wonder if mercy toward a natural killer was foolish... until a far deadlier threat arrives in the form of a hunter who stalks the herd with his rifle.