The reading room
Cowboy Western #65
This issue is an anthology featuring multiple stories. "Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles" presents "The Tinhorn Swindle," in which Everett Dawes arrives in town with forged land deeds and attempts to swindle local ranchers; when Jingles confronts him about the fraud, Dawes threatens violence, but Hickok and the marshal intervene to stop the scheme and have Jingles thrown out of town for his trouble. "Old Slick: Big Stingers" follows a man negotiating with another over delivering a parcel to Hank Edwards, complicated by exaggerated tales of oversized mosquitoes that turn out to be false. "Silly Sitby" depicts a cowboy reading a newspaper and becoming excited about city doctors performing miracles, then learning they are reviving Shakespeare in New York.