Four Color (July 1953), #483

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Crazy Dog Warriors

Storyline: Facts about the Crazy Dog warriors of the Crow Indians.

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Horse Race

Storyline: Laughing Doe wants to marry Bright Knife, but he can only offer ten ponies for her; and Bad Wolf offers twenty ponies. Little Beaver proposes a horse race between Bright Knife and Bad Wolf, with the winner to win ten ponies and the hand of Laughing Doe. Bright Knife has the fastest horse, but Bad Wolf helps some white men steal Bright Wolf's horse. While rescuing Bright Knife's horse, it goes lame, so Little Beaver has to ride his horse Papoose against Bad Wolf in the race.

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Renegades Raid Auntie Duchess' Ranch

Storyline: Little Beaver and Po-Ko visit Auntie Duchess on Red Ryder's Ranch. Duchess is alone while the men are out on the range. Two renegade Indians raid the house and loot it. Little Beaver and Duchess distract and delay them enough that the renegades are caught by the returning ranch hands.

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Greatest Hunter of Them All

Storyline: Little Elk kills his first buffalo, but takes five arrows to do so. Embarrassed, he cuts all but one arrow from the hide before returning to camp. At the village feast, he confesses his deception to his father, Chief Flaming Arrow.

The Ride Back from Death

Storyline: Bandits set up a gruesome death trap for an Indian who has interrupted a robbery. They tie one arm and leg to each of two horses then send them off running. Unknown to the villains, however, is that the Indian had trained the horses to run side-by-side for a trick at an annual festival and the horses take him unharmed back to his village.

The Root and Hog War

Storyline: True story of Bannock Indians of Idaho going to war when white settlers bring hogs to eat the camas plants that were the Indians' primary source of food.

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The Reluctant Burro

Storyline: A prospector has trouble with a stubborn burro.

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