tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post6221656459320112750..comments2024-03-28T18:21:09.285-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Saturday Morning Western Pulp: Blue Ribbon Western, March 1939James Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-67200400248215876642015-07-26T19:18:10.772-05:002015-07-26T19:18:10.772-05:00$X NOVEL COMPLETE IN THIS ISSUE FOR ONLY Xc was a ...$X NOVEL COMPLETE IN THIS ISSUE FOR ONLY Xc was a pretty common banner on the pulps. <br /><br />Who edited the Columbia pulps in those pre-Lowndes days? Do we know? Or was Blue Ribbon not yet a Columbia title-set?Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-34879952016988653402015-07-25T20:00:15.049-05:002015-07-25T20:00:15.049-05:00Yep, according to Pat Hawk, LAW BADGE is indeed by...Yep, according to Pat Hawk, LAW BADGE is indeed by Harry Sinclair Drago. He wrote one other Peter Field book I'd forgotten about called MAN FROM THIEF RIVER.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-47375044705145247362015-07-25T16:02:51.426-05:002015-07-25T16:02:51.426-05:00I have several of the Powder Valley series in UK e...I have several of the Powder Valley series in UK editions; also a Western Library (Amalgamated Press, London, 1951) copy of <i>Law Badge</i> -- a great, archetypal western of its time which I'd always accepted was written by Drago. Can anyone confirm this?Chap O'Keefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04404176810063857291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-31443564990763910752015-07-25T07:59:30.199-05:002015-07-25T07:59:30.199-05:00Yeah, the pulp was 15 cents, the $2.00 must have b...Yeah, the pulp was 15 cents, the $2.00 must have been the price of the William Morrow hardback of DOCTOR TWO GUNS.<br /><br />The Powder Valley series was a pretty good one. It ran from the mid-Thirties to the late Fifties or early Sixties in hardback, published first by William Morrow and then by Jefferson House. Many of the novels were reprinted in paperback by Pocket Books. The series was written at first by William Thayer Hobson. Davis Dresser wrote most of the book in the Forties, and Lucien Emerson was the main author after that, but other authors wrote as Peter Field now and then, including Drago. The hero of the Powder Valley series is Colorado horse rancher Pat Stevens, who is also the local sheriff in some of the books. He has a couple of old codger sidekicks named Sam and Ezra. I read a bunch of them from the bookmobile when I was a kid.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-66619042441820412842015-07-25T07:51:11.770-05:002015-07-25T07:51:11.770-05:00The painting on the cover is great. What's odd...The painting on the cover is great. What's odd is the price. $2.00 jumps out at you, but I'm guess the mag itself was only $0.15 cents (on the right). Was the publisher trying to name the value you'd get for only 15 cents?<br /><br />You mention Powder Valley series. IIRC, in the box of non-L'amour westerns I got from my grandfather, I think there's one in there. Name sounds familiar anyhow. Scott D. Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293540073601809197noreply@blogger.com