Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 942

This issue of Beadle and Adams' pulp weekly contains "Buffalo Bill's Tough Tussle; or, The Buckskin Boss Boy" by Col. Prentiss Ingraham. An assassin hidden on a cliff attempts to kill Colonel Carrol Doan, commander of Fort Belvue, but the bullet strikes Doan's medal and he survives. Buffalo Bill, riding with the cavalry escort, pursues the shooter with his lariat and rifle. Meanwhile, the attacker—a fugitive hermit—reaches his cabin in a remote canyon where his adopted seventeen-year-old son Don tends his fatal wound. Before dying, the hermit reveals he sought revenge against Doan, acknowledges Indian Dick as a renegade guide leading the soldiers into a trap, praises Buffalo Bill's marksmanship, and bequeaths Don gold hidden in the mountains plus a buried treasure. Don, determined to prevent the soldiers' death, immediately departs to warn them.