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30,000 on the Hoof

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Sam Savitt (painted)

Inker(s): Sam Savitt (painted)

Colorist(s): Sam Savitt (painted)

Letterer(s): typeset

Editor(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): Zane Grey's Stories of the West

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Pages: 1

Saguaro National Monument

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois

Penciller(s): ? Tom Gill

Inker(s): ? Tom Gill

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: non-fiction, western

Feature(s): Natural Wonders of the West

Character(s): Saguaro Cactus; Indian; Indian woman; Great Horned Owl; Ocatillo; Greasewood; Bristly Cholla; Gila Monster; Spotted Skunk' Coyote; Sidewinder; Kangaroo Rat

Synopsis: Describing the giant saguaro cacti that cover sixty thousand acres of Arizona desert, and how they are used by Indians and animals.

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Pages: 1

30,000 on the Hoof

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois

Penciller(s): Albert Micale

Inker(s): Albert Micale

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): Zane Grey's

Character(s): Logan Huett; Lucinda Huett; George Huett; Grant Huett; Abe Huett; Barbara Huett; Jack Campbell; Jim Campbell; Sandy Campbell; Fletcher; Mitchell

Synopsis: Logan and Lucinda. Ranch, family, horses, cattle. Campbells, knives, try rob stock. Three Huett sons prevail. Daughter Babs was adopted, marries brother Abe. Sons volunteer for WWI. Logan waits until the beeves price is high, seeks war profits, takes wrapped cash to pridefully show off, buyer is a swindle, Logan gets newspaper, loses a million, all he had. George and Grant are killed in the war; Abe is M.I.A. Babs, left with the baby, is grief-stricken. Abe returns, and reports fifteen hundred head of cattle in the pasture, all Huett cattle. The Huetts are in business again.

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Pages: 27

Notes: Adapts Zane Grey's 1940 posthumously published novel "Thirty Thousand on the Hoof."

Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 184, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott.

Desert Death Trap

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Character(s): Dave Arliss; Navajo hostiles

Synopsis: Dave has his gold dust in his money belt, but the Indians took his horse and canteen to prevent his leaving once he cleaned out the pocket of gold they covet. Filling his boots with water he creeps at night toward the sacred taboo cliff ruins. A pebble betrays him, he saves one bootful and reaches the safety of a prehistoric tower. Inside he will be trapped as the superstitious Indians will play a waiting game, but he finds a hidden passage, and escapes to hike barefoot with gold and water toward the nearest trading post.

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Notes: Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 184, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott.

Black Bart, the Robber Poet

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois

Penciller(s): Albert Micale

Inker(s): Albert Micale

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): True Western Adventures

Character(s): Charles E. Boles [C. E. Bolton]; stage driver; bank teller; express driver; hunter; detective; Chinese laundry attendant

Synopsis: Schoolteacher Boles changes careers. As C. E. Bolton he banked his loot in San Francisco. Thirty odd robberies, never of passengers, only express boxes, carefully planned, using a shotgun he never fired (some believe was not even loaded), wearing a linen duster, masked with a flour sack. He would put the loot in the sack, and leave a poem in the empty express box. His undoing came when a hunter heard him pounding on the box; the driver took the hunter's gun, and fired. Bart dropped a cuff. A detective traced it to Bart's laundy, and he was arrested, did six years. Some say he became a farmer.

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Pages: 4

Notes: Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 184, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott.

"Rounding up outlaw cattle..."

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois

Penciller(s): ? Tom Gill

Inker(s): ? Tom Gill

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): The Cowboy – at Work – at Play

Character(s): "Mossy Horns" outlaw steer; cowboy; horse; cowboys; outlaw steers

Synopsis: Five panels with captions show and tell the difficulties of the cowboy's task of rounding up rogue steers, outlaw cattle.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 184, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott, which states: "The Cowboy at Work. 1p. Cover #3 for Zane Grey's The Trail Driver, December/February issue. Sent June 21, 1956."

Advertising on that page in the issue for which it was originally intended and the absence of this feature in that issue, make it apparent that the feature was bumped to this issue.

Five panels with captions. Cover #3. Sixth panel is: "Dell Comic. A Pledge to Parents."

Bill Tilghman

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: non-fiction, western

Feature(s): Heroes of the West

Character(s): William [Bill] Tilghman; Bill Doolin; the Doolin Gang

Synopsis: Marshal Bill Tilghman, who helped break up the infamous Doolin Gang, may on one occasion have owed Doolin his life. On a cold night Tilghman entered a cabin and warmed his hands by the fire. Guns aimed at his back from bunks. Steel nerves, he warmed, walked out. One gunman followed to kill him, but Doolin, inspired to chivalry by the lawman's grit, stayed the gunman's hand.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 183, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott, which states: "Tilghman (Heroes of the West). 1p. Cover #4 for Zane Grey's The Trail Driver, December/February issue. Sent June 22, 1956."

Cover #4