Four Color #483

In a frontier tale from Four Color #483, Jo and her community face a test of courage and loyalty when a horse race is proposed to settle a marriage claim. With Bright Knife and Bad Wolf each offering ponies as a dowry, Little Beaver steps in to organize a race—only for sabotage to strike when Bad Wolf’s allies steal Bright Knife’s horse. When the stolen horse is found injured, Jo must ride her own horse, Papoose, in a race she never expected.

In "Renegades Raid Auntie Duchess' Ranch," Little Beaver and Po-Ko find Auntie Duchess alone at Red Ryder's Ranch while the men are out on the range. When two renegade Indians launch a surprise raid, the duo must think fast to stall them until the ranch hands return.

In "The Ride Back from Death," a lone Indian’s interruption of a bandit robbery leads to a brutal trap—chained to two horses, he’s sent galloping toward certain doom. But the bandits don’t know the horses were trained to run side-by-side, a trick that saves him and carries him back to his village unharmed.