Lone Ranger Sidekick Tonto Comics: # 11, # 12, # 13, # 15, # 17

THE LONE RANGER'S COMPANION

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In the 1880*. the Indian found living hard. The buffalo were gone '""'

food mw rcfv utorce, A now religion tprang up among ihv Panttat •>! Nevada,

syiithtilizeil in the Ghost Dance. .Soon it spread !<• tin Stoux.

\\ bile liny danced in a circle, the Sioux brave* chanted tlicir wild songs, One da) the
buffalo would return. One day the white man would he swept from the earth. One day
i he* Crc.il Spirit would -mile on his Indian children again,

The great Sioux medi
began to threaten
men were sent to i

Sitting Bull, joined the new religion. Wn«H llic dancer*
went-i and chanted war sonps in tiie dance, Indian police-
he old warrior. Sitting Bull resisted and waa killed.

Some of the dancers fled from the reservation and made fog the Bad Land* of South
Dakota, Every man wore a ghost shirt which he believed Would not be pWeed hy the
while man'* buHeta. The medicine men had luid ihem th.it the) ion hi n-l be killed
while wearing a ghost *hin bearing the lasted rymbou id the re&gion
a In caught the Seeing hra\e- and forced them to camp while they >'■■
arm-. No one know* who tired the first shot while the search was hi progroM, imi whin
the battle »iii over, 128 Indian* and 31 soldier,, were dead. The Sioux ghost dance was
over,

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YOUR GUN ON THE WRONG
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THERE is BARRY PIKE

BANK ROBBER? I'm jim
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HE'S WNG? I'VE BEEN TRAILING HIM FOR ALMOST
WEEK SINCE HE ROBBED THE BANK AT PAYLOADi THIS
MORN I NG, HE JUMPED ME AT MY CAMP' I TOOK
REFUSE UP HERE f MY BADGE IS DOWN THEREON
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THAT NIGHT, AS SHERIFF VANCE GOES FOB WATER

LISTEN, TONTO, DON'T BE A SOCKET YOU'LL NOT GET
A RED CENT FOR 8RINGIN' ME IN' COT ME FREE AN'
I'LL CUT YOU IN ON A SHARE OF THE LOOT I CACHED?

ALL R16HT, INJUR! PLAY IT HONEST AN' DUMB?

1 WAS ONLY FOUR MILES FHOM OUR APPOINTED
WEE TIN' PLAGE WHtTN I WAS CAUGHT ! WHEN I DIDN'T
SHOW UP THIS MORNIN'.THEY MUST'VE STARTED
LOOKIN' AND THEY COULDN'T HELP BUT SEE THE
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