Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
In the history of the pulp magazines, probably the most durable of the genres was the Western. Manvis Publications, the same company that brought you Ka-Zar, All Star Detective and Uncanny Tales, released the first issue of Western Short Stories with a December 1936 cover date. Ten short stories in every issue. Lying out under the stars and a giant moon, listening to the crickets and the howl of the coyote. Slapping leather as a posse takes out across the badlands tracking a gang of rustlers. The magazine series lasted until June 1957, with a three-year break during the war due to paper shortages. There were a whopping 76 issues published in all. Enjoy again the gritty tales of the wild west, where your horse was your best pal and the local schoolmarm was your best gal. Western Short Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
The Gunfighter Who Hated Gunfighters
by Peter Dawson
Gun-veterans of the Deadwood and Virginia City booms, gents who’d known Wild Bill and the Plummer gang, still claimed Sheriff Phil Crawford was the roughest, toughest, fast-drawin’est lawdog in the West, and they looked to his button Steve for more of the old Crawford Colt-magic!
Buy in, Battle-Cub, or Burn Powder!
by Norrell Gregory
Pick-branding or burning powder, it was all one to these ornery Captain boys and Dave Stobie knew they’d shoot first and then look at what they’d shot later!
Doc Hardy’s Powdersmoke Prescription
by Gunnison Steele
The tinhorn medico’s long fingers were as deft with a gun as they’d once been with a scalpel, and Doc Hardy could save one gent’s life now only by grave-sending another!
.38 Thunder
by Bill Davis
Kent Harper and his lightning Colts or Billy Lane and his deadly guns — whichever one it was, he’d come back, at the head of a gun army or alone, to wipe out forever the owlhoot empire of Sid Renner and his hellions and bring freedom and justice to Red River Range once again...
Starpacker Stampede
by Kenneth Fowler and Rod Patterson
That sawed-off, addle-pated saddlepard of Piccolo’s had a holsterfull of hell for any salty son who might figure he mebbeso wasn’t exactly the man to be town marshal!
Colt-Crisis for a Green Kid
by Raymond W. Porter
Maybe the gun was made for more of a man than the kid guessed he’d ever be, maybe a green button like Joe should have learned how to slam lead before he went up the trail to Dodge...
Wanted: Four Kill-Crazy Gunslammers!
by D.B. Newton
Wanted: Four Kill-hungry hardcases to draw iron with the man who Colt-smashed the Kid from No Man’s Creek!
Wire, Water, and Winchesters
by Morse Chandler
The stranger didn’t savvy that Jeff Dairen was laid up with a bullet wound and flat broke — the stranger just hankered to throw some hot lead!
Damned by the Dark Trails
by H.A. DeRosso
Hanged for horse-stealing, and for killing a couple of men — must that be the only range heritage Slim Carr could leave to this war-orphan?
Over Gunsights
by Mojave Lloyd
Dry-gulchers mebbeso bushwhacked Clint’s blood-brother, but they’d have to smash Clint man-to-man over gunsights!
