Bob Colt #3

Bronko Betsy returns home from a week's visit to find her parents eager to show her a letter she'd written before leaving—but when they read it aloud, they're puzzled to discover she'd signed it as their "son" instead of "daughter." The punchline reveals a young speller's creative solution to a spelling challenge she couldn't quite overcome.

When a schemer convinces Boots that wearing a plate of spaghetti on his head will get him out of mandatory work on the levee, Boots takes the bait—only to discover there's a crucial piece of information his con artist friend left out. This four-page humorous Western romp turns the tables on a gullible character who learns the hard way that shortcuts rarely work the way they're promised.

Bob Colt takes on a mysterious threat when an armored figure calling himself the Black Knight of the Prairie and his band of medieval warriors suddenly descend on Big Creek, overwhelming the sheriff and townsfolk with their impenetrable armor and medieval weaponry. After a violent clash in town, Bob suspects there's more to the Knights' origins than a lost medieval kingdom hidden in the frontier wilderness, and he sets out with his friend Pablo to uncover the truth before the Black Knight can strike again.