Rough Edges

Wanted posters show up a lot on Western pulp covers. Usually, the outlaw depicted on the poster is standing there either shooting or about t...

I’ve featured this issue before, but a friend sent me a copy of the actual pulp and I read it this week. Thanks, Ryan! Here’s how I opened t...

Another dramatic, action-packed cover on this issue of ACE-HIGH WESTERN STORIES. I don't know the artist. As always with Western pulps f...

We already know that it wasn't safe to play poker or go to the barber shop in the Old West, but now we realize that you couldn't eve...

Another action-packed cover that I think may be by Robert Stanley. Maybe someone better at artist IDs than I am can confirm or deny that. Th...

I love the expression on this cowboy's face. Somebody's gonna pay for that spilled drink! There are also some excellent authors i...

As I've said before, no poker games ever ended peacefully in the Old West, at least according to the Western pulps. This issue of NEW...

With its red, white, and blue color scheme and prominently featured star, the cover of this issue of ACE-HIGH WESTERN STORIES seemed ap...

SIX-GUN WESTERN was one of the Speed pulps, the slightly toned-down successor to the Spicy pulps. This is the first issue, and along with...

This is a pulp that I own and read recently, and as usual in those cases, the scan is from the actual issue I read. DIME WESTERN, like ...