Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 1132

This issue of the pulp magazine features "Tangled Trails in Texas," a Western romance by Col. Prentiss Ingraham, serialized in multiple chapters. The opening establishes George Powell (alias "Night Hawk"), a Texas plainsman visiting New York, who overhears a dramatic hotel room confrontation between a woman named Clio and a man claiming to be her husband. Clio accuses him of murdering her father and refuses reconciliation. Months later, George and his brother William Powell ("Broncho Bill"), along with their servant Scraps (Black) and Indian companion Red Wolf (Comanche), journey across the Texas prairie toward an abandoned Spanish Mission ruin to establish camp. The Mission, located on a wooded hill surrounded by a river, is said to be haunted following a massacre over a hundred years prior. As they approach at dusk, a white-robed phantom figure suddenly appears on the trail, prompting Broncho Bill to attempt capturing it with his lasso rather than shooting.