Latigo was a comic strip written and drawn by cartoonist Stan Lynde, who also created the Rick O'Shay comic strip. After a dispute over the ownership of Rick O'Shay with the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, Lynde left and went to Field Enterprises to launch Latigo.
Latigo began on Sunday, June 24, 1979.[1] The daily strip ended on May 7, 1983, followed by the last Sunday strip a month later, on June 5.[1]
Set in the old West, it told the adventures of Cole Cantrell, aka "Two Trails". His father was a mountain man and his mother a Crow Indian. After serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Latigo returned to the West and became a Federal marshal. Comics historian Don Markstein detailed the strip's background and characters:
The Latigo daily strips have all been reprinted in three volumes from Cottonwood Publishing.
Comics Revue is reprinting the Latigo Sunday strips in color, starting in issue #300 (April 2011).
Dean Owen, Western writer, wrote novels starring Latigo with Stan Lynde's permission. They were Latigo: Trackdown, Latigo #2: Vengeance Trail, and Latigo #3: Dead Shot. He also wrote Latigo #4: Double Eagle [Don't know if he had Lynde's permission, though]