Product Overview
Fourteen stories from the early years of the Western pulp tradition bring together sheriffs, deputies, cowboys, mule skinners, stage drivers, rustlers, outlaws, and small-town schemers. Gun trouble may be close at hand, but quick thinking, stubborn pride, bad timing, and plain foolishness often matter just as much as a fast draw.
Several tales follow a Colorado sheriff and his irrepressible young deputy as they chase thieves, investigate strange crimes, protect payrolls, untangle buried-money schemes, and try to stay one jump ahead of trouble. Other stories range across mining camps, ranch country, rodeos, freight outfits, and mountain stage routes. First published between 1923 and 1929, most in Western Story Magazine, these lively pulp Westerns mix action, mystery, frontier life, and broad humor. Together they preserve a distinctive strain of the 1920s Western story: rough country, colorful characters, dangerous situations, and endings that often depend as much on wit as on gunplay.
