A very nice Christmas-themed cover on this issue of RANGELAND ROMANCES, Popular Publications' answer to RANCH ROMANCES. By the Fifties, this pulp leaned more toward actual romances rather than traditional Westerns and featured more female authors. One of those in this issue, Helen Meinzer, who wrote the lead novella under the pseudonym A.C. Abbott, was just about as hardboiled in her writing as her male counterparts, though. Her novels WILD BLOOD and BRANDED are excellent. Other notable names in this issue are Marian O'Hearn, Kenneth Fowler, and Theodore J. Roemer. None of the story titles sound Christmas-like, but the cover's enough to generate some holiday spirit.
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My Dad was addicted to westerns and had the Gold Medal and Signet 1950s paperbacks of BRANDED and WILD BLOOD. I wasn't addicted to westerns but enjoyed them -- Dad having addicted me to Edgar Rice Burroughs. Neither one of us knew that A. C. Abbott was a woman author! But the two paperback editions were good stories and I still have them! Thanks for mentioning A. C Abbott was a pseudonym.
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