Black Fury #41

Black Fury and Scar the mountain lion clash in a brutal fight across rocky ridges, each drawing blood—until a hunter named Fogarty threatens to end them both with his rifle. When the stallion realizes his ancient foe is about to fall, something shifts between predator and prey, setting the two rivals on an unexpected path where survival and strange alliance become intertwined.

Marked by childhood injury and rejection, Lame Beaver leaves his Sioux village seeking solitude—only to rescue a wounded colt from a wolf and nurse it back to strength at a sacred hot spring. By his sixteenth year, mounted on his namesake war horse Kya, Lame Beaver returns to prove himself as a warrior and hunter, transforming his isolation into the foundation of his greatest victories.

When a cruel rancher named Luff Bandee rescues Black Fury from quicksand, the stallion's ordeal only deepens—starved, denied water, and broken by a loaded whip in a bid to shatter his spirit. As the noble horse endures unrelenting abuse, the rancher's compassionate nephew and his mother must decide how far they'll go to defy tyranny. Black Fury's journey from captive to avenger tests whether even a beast driven by hunger and hatred can choose mercy over vengeance.

The Teton Sioux transformed from foot-bound hunters into the greatest mounted warriors of the plains after wild horses—descendants of Spanish stock—spread northward across the continent, and a determined warrior decided to master riding despite warnings of death. As the Sioux perfected cavalry tactics and weaponry to match the threat of southern tribes, they gained the speed and mobility that would define their nation for generations—until that same horsemanship brought them into bitter conflict with the U.S. Army's westward advance.

When a desperate outlaw named Rubio Riburosa captures the wild stallion Black Fury south of the Rio Grande, he uses a mysterious plant potion to strip the proud horse of his fierce spirit—keeping him fast but obedient. Now tame and broken, the legendary stallion becomes an unwilling partner to Riburosa's life of crime as the outlaw rides north, planning his next score and leaving a trail of betrayal in his wake. What becomes of Black Fury as he's enslaved to a man of pure cruelty is the heart of this frontier tale of pride lost and spirit tested.