Lucky Luke rides for the 20 cavalry
Lucky Luke rides for the 20 cavalry (on the title page … rides for the 20 cavalry , French original title: Le 20ème de cavalerie ) is a comic book from the Lucky Luke series, which was drawn by Morris and written by René Goscinny .
According to the Ehapa-Verlag (or at the beginning: Delta-Verlag from Ehapa and Dargaud ) this volume is the 19th in the series. Before that, the comic was published by Kauka and Yps as a sequel story or in Zack by Koralle-Verlag , but the comic was sometimes given different names.
The comic was originally published in 1964 in the Belgian-French comic magazine Spirou and in 1965 as the 27th volume by Dupuis in Belgium.
This band was filmed for the Lucky Luke cartoon series .
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The Cheyenne, under their chief Yellow Dog, pledge in a contract with the USA to open up Wyoming for repopulation, to withdraw into reservations and also to allow settlers to roam their land. On the other hand, they are not allowed to hunt buffalo in the reserves. Fort Cheyenne is located on the border with the land of the Indians , where the 20th Cavalry Regiment under Colonel MacStraggle is stationed. However, one day settlers are attacked, first with arrows, and later with rifles, and the Cheyenne claim that the treaty has been broken because buffalo have been killed.
Since the Indians were apparently equipped with carbines , Lucky Luke is sent with full powers by the US government to Fort Cheyenne, but is supposed to introduce himself as an ordinary scout in order not to annoy the Colonel. In the fort there is also a laundry of the Chinese Ming Li Foo and the son of the colonel, who is a cavalryman. The Colonel's son is repeatedly punished ("Sergeant, punish the man!") And has to do the basest work.
Lucky Luke negotiates with Yellow Dog, who already knows Lucky Luke. It turns out that a former member of the 20 Cavalry named Flood obtained the rifles. Lucky Luke arranges a meeting of the chief with the colonel in the fort and guarantees the safety of Yellow Dog, but the white flag that was hoisted is shot, so that the formal colonel has Yellow Dog captured. Flood frees it again. Yellow dog declares war and allies itself with the Oglala Sioux, the Crow Sioux and the Arapaho by means of smoke signals . Lucky Luke rides to the Indians to eavesdrop on them, but is discovered and captured, but the young MacStraggle frees him again.
The Indians lay siege to the fort and the food shortage was exacerbated by a targeted attack on the storage shed, which caught fire. A tunnel is dug to call for reinforcements. Lucky Luke and the young MacStraggle escape from the fort and steal horses from the Indians, on which they ride separately to the next cavalry base, as the Indians are chasing them. Cavalry stationed there rushes to help immediately. Exactly at the last desperate failure of the 20 cavalry, the reinforcements arrive so that the Indians can be defeated. At that moment, Flood betrays himself to the Indians, because he had killed the buffalo. A new peace treaty is signed and Flood is arrested.
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The plot is reminiscent of the western film Rio Grande , in which the father-son relationship is also discussed.
A running gag is the apparently idiosyncratic 'taste' of the Gelber Hund peace pipe. He always wants to smoke it with others, but they regularly get nauseous so that they leave (with a "Pooh ...") or look for an excuse not to have to smoke with Yellow Dog from the start. The same goes for the allied chiefs.
The colonel strictly adheres to the regulations, which is why he inspects potato peelings, for example, and has potatoes peeled even though none are left.
In an Indian raid, all hatmakers' hats are riddled with holes. This is often used as a joke (a fire should be put out with these hats, but the water runs out through the holes).
An Indian is initially called a fox with two feathers , shot into a fox with a feather and a fox without feathers , later it is called a fox with a bump and a fox with a black eye .