WE’RE celebrating the holidays with Harold F. Cruickshank—creator of those great Aces of the Western Front’s Hell Skies—Red Eagle, Sky Wolf, and Sky Devil. But this holiday season it’s going to be a down home Christmas featuring Cruickshank’s Pioneer Folk stories from the pages of Range Riders Western (1945-1952) on Mondays and Fridays; and Cruickshank’s own recollections of homesteading life from The Edmonton Journal’s The Third Column on Wednesdays.

Cruickshank wrote 35 stories chronicling the trials and tribulations of Dal and Mary Baldwin as they carved out their piece of the Wilderness in Sun Bear Valley, Wyoming and establish a growing community. Doc gets injured as the Sun Bear Valley men work to build a cozy cabin for Phil and school-marm Nan to move into when they finally tie the knot, but Bart Manning, one of the Boxed D wranglers, has eyes for Nan and sets about to cause deadly mischief.

From the March 1947 number of Range Riders Western, it’s Harold F. Cruickshank’s Pioneer Folks in “Frontier Courage!”

Red tongues of fire threaten the security of Dal Baldwin and the settlers of Sun Bear Valley, but they meet the challenge!

• Download “Frontier Courage” (March 1947, Range Riders Western)

Be sure to stop back Monday for one last tale of the Pioneer Folk of Sun Bear Valley!