Anyone remember this 70s newpaper comic strip? (San Antonio, Laredo: living in, horse)

[StanStelle]

Back in the 70s when I was a young boy living in Laredo, I was browsing the Sunday newspaper comics one Christmas morning when I came across a particularly poignant cartoon. I remember that most of that day's comics had scenes of presents being thrashed open, but one cowboy-themed daily, which I usually skipped over as being boring, had a distinctly different scene. It depicted a lone cowboy riding a horse at dusk through a desolate snow covered forest. Each ensuing panel depicted the same lone rider on some unknown destination, till the last one showed the rider stopped atop a hilltop overlooking a valley with a bright star shining above the horizon and he simply said "Happy birthday Boss".
It struck a chord about what was to me a forgotten view of Christmas as I glanced at the aftermath of my own present opening spree that morning.

I remember it every Christmas since then and have been trying to find the name of that comic strip to see if I could somehow get a copy of that particular Christmas Sunday's print.

I looked up an online calendar and found that Christmas fell on a Sunday in 1977 so I must have been eight and I remember that particular cowboy strip had been running for years around that time. Perhaps that comic strip might also have been running in San Antonio during that era so does anyone remember the name of this strip?

Thanks

[sapphire]

Is this it?
Contents for Stan Lynde's Old Montana (http://www.oldmontana.com/prints.html - broken link)

[StanStelle]

Originally Posted by sapphire

Is this it?
Contents for Stan Lynde's Old Montana (http://www.oldmontana.com/prints.html - broken link)

Wow thanks, thats the one, although my memory of that scene was off. I was only 4 in 1973 so I must have read it when it got reprinted at other times throughout the 70s.
I'll have to check if I can find that particular cartoon in a less expensive book. $150 is a little too much, even for closure on a 30 year old memory.
Thanks a lot Sapphire!