Monte Hale Western #73
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeMonte Hale battles badmen who have trapped a pioneer family in a cabin after they try to escape an attack. In the main story "Seeds of Friendship," a Gray Hawk tale by Dick Kraus, a young Otapi Indian named Gray Hawk brings corn seed to a white farmer named Tom Cooley as a gesture of peace, but his father Gray Eagle refuses to help the settlers and the Shawanga tribe launches an attack on the village, forcing Gray Hawk to help defend his new friend. The issue also features a story called "Unknown Bonanza" and includes a Gabby Hayes feature.
Sagebrush's brother has landed himself a peculiar traveling job—as a truant officer for a correspondence school, which means he's on the move constantly across the country. It's the kind of wonderfully absurd setup that only a 1952 Western humor strip could deliver, and Sagebrush couldn't be more thrilled about sharing the news.
Old Slick shares a quick-witted answer about alligators and torches in this lighthearted Western tale that proves sometimes the best defense is a fast comeback.
Bronko Betsy takes her time with a letter to a friend, deliberately slowing her writing pace to match her correspondent's reading speed—a humorous take on considerate communication in the Old West.
When Gopherface decides to bake his uncle a marble cake in his honor, he takes the recipe a little too literally—with predictably disastrous results. This one-page comedy western serves up a quick laugh before things get back to the serious business of cowboys and outlaws.
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Reprinted in Monte Hale Western #85 (1955)
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