| Issue | #557 |
| Published | May 1954 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | ? |
| Notes | Indicia title is "BEN BOWIE AND HIS MOUNTAIN MEN, No. 557." Code number is BEN.B.O.S. #554-545 (Note that code number does not match issue number.) Copyright 1954 by Western Printing and Lithographing Company. Third of six Ben Bowie Four Colors. |
| Characters | Ben Bowie |
| Genre | period |
| Pencils | ? (painting) |
| Inks | ? (painting) |
| Colors | ? (painting) |
| Synopsis | Directions for tanning a deerhide. |
| Genre | fact |
| Pencils | Frank Thorne [as FT] |
| Inks | Frank Thorne [as FT] |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Three illustrations and typeset text. Art id by Martin Olsen via the Error Tracker (January 2009). |
| Characters | Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Zeke Moss; Nakah |
| Synopsis | Ben and his men help a wagon train of settlers fight off hostile Shawnee Indians as they make their way to the end of the Wilderness Trail at Garsen's Gap. |
| Genre | period |
| Characters | Ben Bowie; Jim Prentice; Zeke Moss; Nakah |
| Synopsis | Ben and Jim bring their beaver skins to the trading post only to find that the post operator is only buying from a man named Weber, who is using 20 Indians to force a monopoly on beaver trade in the area. |
| Genre | period |
| Notes | Story continues on inside cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. |