John R. Erickson

Get ready for laughs! Excerpts from 10 of Hank's stories performed in the style of an old-time radio show....

It's summertime, and the weather on Hank's West Texas ranch is hot and dry. So dry, in fact, that everyone is on the lookout for prairie fires....

When Little Alfred runs away from home and winds up in the Dark Unchanted Forest being trailed by a bobcat, Hank the Cowdog knows that it's up to him to save his young master....

It's roundup time, and Hank the Cowdog is ready to strut his stuff....

The head of ranch security and his first lieutenant, Drover, are finishing up an exhausting morning of patrols when a mysterious caravan of trucks rumbles past headquarters....

When Halloween arrives, Hank - the self-appointed Head of Ranch Security - has got his hands full of adventure....

Hank couldn't be more thrilled when Beulah the Collie comes to the ranch looking for help....

Using his top-notch law enforcement skills, Hank launches one of the hardest-hitting investigations of his career....

When Hank makes the mistake of asking Drover what he's doing, Drover reveals his observation that the moon looks like a cookie....

After Pete the Barncat starts a rumor about a Phantom Dog in the machine shed, Hank the Cowdog decides that he better check it out....

It's scrap day on the ranch, and Hank is looking forward to a delicious feast of juicy, fatty bacon scraps....

Someone has been stealing calves from Uncle Johnny's pasture, and it's up to Hank and Slim to put a stop to it....

Things are looking pretty bleak for Hank the Cowdog. First he gets sick on poisoned bacon grease....

Love doesn't come easy....

A rumor on the ranch: who ever heard of a fiddle-playing fox? Not Hank the Cowdog, that's for sure....

From rags to riches... When Pete the Barncat offers to trade good, juicy steak scraps for a couple of old corncobs, Hank the Cowdog smells a rat....

Loper and Sally May have left Slim to manage the ranch while they go off to visit the relatives for the holidays....

When a enemy spy disguised as a chicken sneaks on the ranch, it's going to be a wild day for Hank....

Someone has been stealing feed out of the feed shed, and Hank knows that it's his job to do whatever he can do to help nab the culprit....

There's been a brutal murder on the ranch, and it's up to Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, to conduct the investigation....