Rough Edges

I featured this issue of FRONTIER STORIES several years ago, but I’ve since acquired a copy and just read it. Unfortunately, that copy is co...

I don't own this issue of FRONTIER STORIES, so I haven't read it. But it has a dramatic cover by Richard Case and a fine group of wr...

Les Savage Jr. was a highly regarded Western writer during his lifetime, a career cut short when he died in 1958 at the age of 35 from a hea...

I’ve featured this pulp before, but now I’ve had a chance to read it, thanks to a good friend who loaned me his copy. That’s it in the scan....

I like posting snowy covers of Northern pulps during the summer when the weather is hot. This one is by the always-excellent George Gross. T...

RANCH LOVE STORIES lasted only one issue in 1950. A pretty blatant attempt by Interstate Publishing to compete with the long-running RANCH R...

I feel like I should know who painted this cover, but I don't. Maybe one of you can help me out. STAR WESTERN was always one of the top ...

I'm not crazy about this Sidney Riesenberg cover, but inside this issue of FRONTIER STORIES are yarns by Dan Cushman, Les Savage Jr., To...

Texan Bob Hogarth arrives in Wyoming with a herd of cattle in the spring of 1887, following the Big Die-Up, the devastating winter that wipe...

That's a dramatic cover on this issue of MAMMOTH WESTERN, painted by Arnold Kohn, an artist I'm not familiar with. I'm very fami...

We have a tough-looking hombre, courtesy of Sam Cherry, gracing the cover on this issue of FIFTEEN WESTERN TALES. The collection of authors ...

Les Savage Jr. was one of the stars of the Western pulp field for more than a decade, from the time he broke in in the early Forties t...

This is another Norman Saunders cover packed with detail. This scene might have seemed too busy if it was painted by many other artists, ...

ACTION STORIES didn't start out, strictly speaking, as a Western pulp, since it featured adventure yarns set in many different times ...

I'm not really sure what's happening on this cover, but I like it quite a bit anyway. As with many other Fiction House covers, it...

I keep posting about issues of LARIAT STORY MAGAZINE because I love the covers, the authors, and the story titles. This cover scan, like ...

Good ol' LARIAT STORY. For two thin dimes, you got covers like this one by Norman Saunders, stories by authors such as Les Savage Jr....

I probably post too many covers from LARIAT STORY, but dang, I like the covers by Allen Anderson, including this one with another of his ...

You know I love covers like this (I have no idea who the artist is) and titles like "Blood-Brand of the Devil's Corral". Le...