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Wild West Weekly, No. 1223
*Wild West Weekly*, No. 1223, March 26, 1926 The featured serial is "Young Wild West and the Redskin Traitor; or, The Siege in the Sand Hills" by An Old Scout. Young Wild West, the celebrated boy deadshot, leads a party of eight across southeastern Arizona's scorching desert toward the sandhills. The group includes his sweetheart Arietta Murdock, scout Cheyenne Charlie and his wife Anna, Jim Dart with his sweetheart Eloise Gardner, and Chinese servants Hop Wah and Wing Wah. At a cactus patch refuge, they discover a riderless Indian pony. Wild rides out and finds a dying Indian near a rocky formation. He provides water and brings the man back to camp, where the grateful Indian begins recovering. The narrative emphasizes survival challenges, Indian encounters, and Wild's heroic interventions in the hostile frontier landscape.