Beadle's Pocket Library No. 285

This issue presents the opening installment of "Old Rocky's Pard; Little Ben's Chase" by Buckskin Sam (Maj. Sam S. Hall), a Western action serial. The narrative centers on Old Rocky, a renowned Southwest scout, and Turtle, a Tonkaway chief and his "red pard," who must protect a wagon party including Miss Mollie and Captain Meredith from sixty attacking Apache warriors near the Rio Frio and Rio Nueces. When Apaches approach at full speed, Old Rocky devises a strategy: he and Turtle draw the war party away from the wagon toward the Souse Lakes through a running gunfight. The two scouts kill multiple warriors with rifle fire before separating their horses to divide the Apache pursuit, planning to reunite and redirect their attackers away from the civilian refugees. The narrative emphasizes frontier combat tactics and survival.