Western Picture Stories #1

A covered wagon carrying Tom Travis and his daughter heads toward new territory, but a treacherous white guide has darker plans—he's secretly working with a band of raiders to ambush the family at the ford. When Onah, a Chippewa hunter, discovers the plot through picture writing and races to warn them, Tom must decide whom to trust before the guide's true intentions are revealed. This classic Western tale of frontier deception and unlikely alliance unfolds across seven pages of action and suspense.

Windy Parks swears he found a canyon full of gold while traveling with his burro Fanny, but keeping the treasure proves trickier than finding it—especially when a claim-jumper named Pocatello Pete gets wind of the strike and a protective mother grizzly complicates matters. With the gold melted down and poured into a bean kettle too heavy to move safely, Windy hatches an unconventional plan to haul his fortune out of the canyon, one that involves unexpected allies and a solution even he didn't quite anticipate.

In the quiet hush of a snow-laden wilderness, Joe tends his isolated cabin, haunted by the weight of responsibility as he watches the tracks of two motherless children leading into the frozen woods—tracks that promise both purpose and peril.