Young Eagle #7

Young Eagle must clear his tribe's name when a series of violent raids blamed on his people threaten to spark a vigilante attack on the reservation. With suspicious timing and mounting pressure from town leaders, he races to uncover who's orchestrating the violence and framing his people before vengeance consumes both sides. The real culprits are closer than he thinks, and proving the truth may be his only hope to prevent disaster.

Buck-Shot discovers a newspaper headline about a missing big game hunter, and when he reads the details aloud to a friend at the general store, the punchline lands with perfectly groan-worthy timing. This 1951 frontier humor tale delivers the kind of groaner joke that makes you laugh despite yourself.

Old Smokey shows up at Farmer Keller's place hungry and decides to finagle a dinner invitation by pretending to be a learned man who loves books—but his scheme starts falling apart when he can't remember the title of the book he promised to bring. Desperate to salvage his free meal, he brags about being a college man and demonstrates "logic" by proving that two chickens on a platter are actually three, which impresses the Kellers so much they decide to give him one of the birds. Of course, Old Smokey's clever reasoning backfires in the most painful way possible.

Mule Ears sought advice about his struggling vegetable garden, only to reveal he'd spent good money on canned seeds—a frontier gardener's comical mix-up that explains why nothing's sprouted in the soil.

Young Eagle rides into a dangerous situation when the Indian scout discovers that two ruthless outlaws are trailing Professor Jordan and his nephew Miles into the treacherous Sierra Sangre Mountains—a region steeped in legend and said to hide the ruins of an ancient lost city. After a tense confrontation on the trail, Young Eagle joins the expedition as a guide, but the professor's enemies are far from finished, and the mountains themselves hold perils that may claim them all before the mystery is solved.