Rough Edges

This issue of GIANT WESTERN sports a slightly cartoonish cover by Ed DeLavy, but it's yet another example of just how dangerous it was t...

This is a pulp that I own and read recently. That’s my copy in the scan. The cover is by Sam Cherry, who did nearly all of them for TEXAS RA...

This is a pulp that I own and read recently. That’s my copy in the scan. The cover is by Sam Cherry, of course. The Jim Hatfield story in th...

Leslie Ernenwein was a prolific contributor to the Western pulps from the late Thirties to the end of the pulp era. He also wrote several do...

Once again, an Old West poker game is about to end badly. This is from the usually forgotten Popular Publications incarnation of WESTERN STO...

The cover on this issue of 10 STORY WESTERN MAGAZINE is more proof, as if we needed it, that the barber shop was one of the most dangerou...

This is a pulp that I own and read recently. The scan is from my copy, and the cover art is by Sam Cherry. W.C. Tuttle’s series about r...

This issue of WESTERN NOVEL AND SHORT STORIES sports a cover by Allen Anderson, an artist I usually associate with Fiction House pulps. N...

What a great cover. I don't know the artist, but I love the expression on this guy's face. I may have to add an Injury to a Quirl...

Great cover on this issue of 10 STORY WESTERN (I don't know the artist) and a great bunch of writers inside: Harry F. Olmsted, Norman...

This is a pulp I own and read recently. The scan is from the copy I read. Novellas have become just about my favorite length of fiction...

The last few years of its existence, STAR WESTERN rather blatantly went after the RANCH ROMANCES readers. Not only do all the covers pr...

WESTERN ADVENTURES was a second-string Street & Smith Western pulp (if you consider both WESTERN STORY and WILD WEST WEEKLY to be fir...

You have to look close to see it, but there's a bullet going through this cowboy's hat, so this qualifies as an Injury to a Hat c...