Rough Edges

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

I don't own this issue of FAMOUS WESTERN, so I haven't read it. But I like the cover, which is credited on the Fictionmags Index to ...

This is a pulp that I own and read recently. The cover art is by Sam Cherry. The Jim Hatfield novel in this issue has some historical signif...

There's a lot going on in this cover by Sam Cherry, more than you might realize at first glance. We have our stalwart hero in a red shir...

Robert Gibson Jones is probably best known for his covers on the Ziff-Davis pulp FANTASTIC ADVENTURES, but he did quite a few covers for Z-D...

I always think of Sam Cherry as doing covers for the various Thrilling Group Western pulps, but he did quite a few for Popular Publications ...

This looks like a pretty good mid-Thirties issue of WESTERN TRAILS, with a cover by William F. Soare and entries in two long-running series,...

This is a pulp that I own and read recently. That’s my copy in the scan. The cover is by the dependable Sam Cherry. As always, this issue of...

We can add another category to the things we see on Western pulp covers: Injury to a Saddle. This is a really nice, dynamic cover on this is...

I feel like I ought to know who painted the cover on this issue of NEW WESTERN. The hat on the cowboy with the red bandanna looks awfully fa...

I don't think the art is great on this issue of ACE-HIGH WESTERN STORIES, but the scene has a really dynamic feel to it that I like. ...

As I’ve mentioned numerous times in the past, Peter Germano, who wrote mostly under the pseudonym Barry Cord, was one of the most depen...

Did any stagecoaches in the Western pulps ever get where they were going without being attacked by bad guys? Judging by the covers, the a...

This is a pulp that I own and read recently. The scan is of my copy, which I try to do when possible. The Jim Hatfield novel in this ...

Another fine-looking issue of WESTERN ACES, with a good cover and stories by L.P. Holmes, Walker A. Tompkins, Gunnison Steele, Barry Cord...

An old codger with a bullet hole in his hat and his hands full of dynamite . . . he told those darn kids to stay off his lawn and away fr...

I hadn't intended to read the other side of that Ace Double Western from last week quite so soon, but that's the way things worke...

(This post originally appeared in different form on April 25, 2005) Originally published by Phoenix Press in 1948, this is Peter Germ...

From fairly late in the long run by TEXAS RANGERS, this issue features a Jim Hatfield novel by Peter Germano writing as Jackson Cole. Ger...

Here are ten more Western authors whose work I really enjoy, although, as usual, some of them can be inconsistent. Peter Dawson – In re...