Log Jockey, also printed as Difficult Rider!, is a comic story written and drawn by Carl Barks. It features Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck, Peg-Leg Pete, Red-Eye, Two-Eyes and Whitewater Duck.
Plot[]
Having decided to visit his distant-living cousin Whitewater, Donald Duck finds him in the middle of a quarrel with rival lumberjack Black Pete (or "Pierre" as he has himself be called). Whitewater is injured just before a logging contest with Pete, and manages to guilt Donald into filling in for him… never mind that he knows nothing about how to drive logs down a river.
Behind the scenes[]
Log Jockey was first printed in December of 1962 in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #267. It was then reprinted in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #471, and, of course, in the various versions of the Carl Barks Library. It was also printed in English in the Australian Walt Disney's Comics #203 and #325. Under the title Difficult Rider!, it was also printed in the British Donald and Mickey #98.
It was the first appearance of Whitewater Duck.
Interestingly, in later reprints, Pete's alias of "Black Pierre" was changed to "Bully Pierre", out of fear that black would be misinterpreted as a pejorative use of the ethnical denomination.