Lone Eagle #4

Lone Eagle accepts a magnificent new Winchester repeating rifle from Major Anderson at Fort Courage as a token of peace between their peoples, but when the chief sends his young nephew Hopping Squirrel back to the village with the weapon, a brutal war party of Blackfeet led by the savage Bloody Tomahawk intercepts the boy, tortures him for information, and seizes the rifle. Learning of the attack and fearing the Blackfeet now know of an incoming Army wagon train laden with more repeating rifles, Lone Eagle gathers his warriors and prepares for battle in the desolate ghost town of Skullville, where the enemy has laid a deadly ambush.

In "Massacre Mesa," Overste Meeker, driven by a personal vendetta after his father's death at the hands of the Lone Eagle's tribe, devises a brutal plan to eliminate the entire band. As he takes command of Fort Flagg, his cold calculations set the stage for a confrontation that threatens to erupt into bloodshed.

When a desperate outlaw takes refuge near Old Timer Slate's mountain shanty, the elderly panhandler captures him and heads to town for the sheriff—but not before leaving Little Polecat to stand guard over the dangerous Black Ace. As the boy struggles to keep the villain contained, Swift Rider races against time to prevent disaster, while the Old Timer discovers that the trail to justice proves far more treacherous than any rope can hold.

In "Bloody Blades," a newly built dam alters the flow of a frontier river, bringing relief from floods but stirring unrest among gold miners downstream who depend on the river’s current for their work. Tensions rise as the balance between progress and survival threatens to erupt into violence.