Black Fury #16

Black Fury, a wild stallion, detects water in a scorched landscape and alerts a pack of thirst-crazed wolves to its location, but when he moves to track down the source at a rise, he discovers a thundering herd of cattle and hears cries for help. Meanwhile, an old man named Pedro Velasquez rescues a drowning colt from the water, spurring his burro to save the young animal; Black Fury arrives to witness the colt's distress and attempts to aid it, but the panicked colt flounders in the steep bank and falls heavily. The issue also includes a text story, "Calf Keeper," about Dave Winslow encountering a young woman named Ruth Connelly who seeks to gather and protect stray calves on the Lazy-Q Ranch, challenging the foreman's indifference toward the welfare of abandoned livestock.