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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Penciller(s): ? (painting); ? (photographs)

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Colorist(s): ? (painting); ? (photographs)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, western

Character(s): Red Ryder; Fred Harman (photo); Little Beaver (photo); Thunder (horse, photo); Chief Leo Vicente (photo)

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Notes: Painting of Red Ryder fixing a wagon wheel. Also three photographs featuring Fred Harman and friends.

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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

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Character(s): Fred Harman (photos); Thunder (horse, photo); Cecil Cornish (photo); John Morris (photo)

First Line: Howdy friends: Many of you folks might think that it gets lonesome out west here on my ranch...

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover. Three photographs of Fred Harman and visitors to his ranch with hand-written text. John Morris of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is shown reading a Red Ryder comic book, along with his pet chimpanzee Marie.

Valley of the Giant Ants

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, western

Character(s): Red Ryder; Thunder (horse); Little Beaver; Papoose (horse); Sheriff Newt; Miss Lisa Worthington; Harry Long; Slade Shaw

First Line: Help! We'll all be killed!

Synopsis: Rich Miss Worthington comes from the East to buy Red Ryder's ranch, even though Red has told by letter that he doesn't want to sell. Two itinerant ranch hands get briefly hired by Red, though they are quickly fired for abusing horses. They are around long enough to see the jewels worn by Miss Worthington and plot a robbery.

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Pages: 14

Notes: Signed "Fred Harman", but may or may not be by him.

Feather Fan

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, western

Feature(s): Little Beaver

Character(s): Little Beaver; Po-Ko

Synopsis: On a hot day, Little Beaver gives Po-Ko a fan made of feathers, with he has clipped from the Chief's headdress.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Pantomime story.

Fred Harman's Friends and Neighbors in the West That Lives Forever

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: non-fiction, western

Feature(s): The West That Lives Forever

Character(s): Fred Harman (line drawing) (narrator)

First Line: The Indian's ability to follow a trail was uncanny--

Synopsis: An Apache brave trails a Comanche who has stolen some horses. The skills used to follow the trail are described in detail.

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Pages: 2

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Activity on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Red Ryder's Western Quiz

Character(s): Red Ryder (cameo); Little Beaver (cameo)

First Line: Here's a game to test your knowledge of the West, pardners.

Synopsis: Multiple choice quiz to identify Western slang and equipment.

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Notes: Answers upside-down at the bottom of the second page.

Giant of Pagosa Springs

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Genres: non-fiction, western

Character(s): Colonel Alfred Henry Pfeiffer

First Line: A vicious "David and Goliath" duel gave the Ute Indians possession...

Synopsis: Colonel Pfeiffer wins a knife fight for the Ute Indians over a Navajo "giant" to gain possession of the mineral springs in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.

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Notes: Text with two illustrations.

Look Before You Leap

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, western

Feature(s): Little Beaver

Character(s): Little Beaver; Papoose (horse); Sheriff Newt; Jim Daly; Sam Daly; Carl Daly

First Line: Aiee! Me get-um this rabbit for sure!

Synopsis: Little Beaver jumps to a false conclusion when he finds Jim Daly's saddlebags full of gold and hidden in an old tree stump.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Signed "Fred Harman," but may or may not be by him.

Autumn on the Red Ryder Ranch

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Genres: non-fiction, western

First Line: The turning of the leaves and the patches of snow appearing high in the Rockies...

Synopsis: Activities on the ranch in the fall to get ready for the approaching winter.

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Notes: Text with four illustrations. Heading is in full color, the other three illustrations are in blocks of solid light blue.

Eagle Traps

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: non-fiction, western

Feature(s): Wigwam Ways

Character(s): Little Beaver (host)

First Line: Me have-um very unusual story to tell about-um feathers used in Indian war bonnets!

Synopsis: How braves who had earned enough honors constructed complex traps to lure eagles close enough to capture them for their feathers.

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Pages: 2

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Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: non-fiction, western

Feature(s): Uncle Bill's Corral

Character(s): Uncle Bill (host); Raymond Morley

First Line: The cowboys around the corral here at Red Ryder ranch got to talking about famous rides of the West.

Synopsis: The story of Raymond Morley's ride through dangerous canyons to win a race for a railroad right-of-way to Leadville, Colorado.

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Pages: 2

Notes: Text and six illustrations.

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Photo Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: non-fiction, western

Feature(s): Red Ryder Ranch Photos

Character(s): Fred Harman (photo); Thunder (horse, photo); Chief Leo Vicente (photo); Floyd Bramwell (photo, ranch foreman)

First Line: A long steep slope leads down to my ranch buildings in the valley below.

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Notes: Inside back cover. Four photographs of life on the Red Ryder Ranch with brief hand-written text.

Fred Harman's Red Ryder Ranch

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: non-fiction

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Notes: Back cover. A birds-eye view of the layout of the Red Ryder ranch, 18 miles southeast of Pagosa Springs, Colorado, with buildings numbered and identified.