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Harold Lamb’s Thrilling Cossack Adventures – quick summaries, Part 1

Harold Lamb wrote more than forty stories of the Cossack adventurers. Luckily for us, all his stories are back in print, thanks to the efforts of Howard Andrew Jones. In this bibliography, I want to give a flavor of the stories, the exotic locales and the different people that Khlit and others meet on their adventures,… Continue reading Harold Lamb’s Thrilling Cossack Adventures – quick summaries, Part 1

Harold Lamb – Adventure short story writer, Novelist, Historian

[Harold Lamb was, in my opinion, one of the top writers of historical adventure fiction. His stories appeared in Adventure, Argosy, All-Story, Colliers, Short Stories and the Saturday Evening Post. He was a renowned historian, and his stories had excellent plotting, keen attention to historical detail and tight, surprising plots. In addition to writing great… Continue reading Harold Lamb – Adventure short story writer, Novelist, Historian

The Push – Article about a logging superintendent in a lumber camp by Paul Hosmer

Newspaper man turned toward industry, Paul Hosmer has seen pine logging change from the days of horses and high wheels to 230 h.p. cats and all during this time he has produced a little gem of  a house organ for Brooks-Scanlon, “Pine Echoes.”Paul is gifted with a needle-punch sense  of   humor and the ability to make… Continue reading The Push – Article about a logging superintendent in a lumber camp by Paul Hosmer

Paul Hosmer – humorist of the lumber camps

[Paul Who? He isn’t an Adventure author. I ran across him in Short Stories, in the Story Teller’s Circle, where he was talking about his early life.  He was a humorous writer, and I felt like learning more about him. He’s an interesting guy, and it’s neat to see pulp authors coming from all sorts of backgrounds. Inside this article,… Continue reading Paul Hosmer – humorist of the lumber camps

Patriotism, Pigs, Pendexter and Mundy – How Talbot Mundy and Hugh Pendexter helped win World War 1

When i was looking up information on Hugh Pendexter, i came across this article on how the town of Norway, Maine contributed to the war effort in World War 1. Hugh Pendexter and Talbot Mundy were both residents of the town at the time, and they were both drivers (literally in Mundy’s case) of the… Continue reading Patriotism, Pigs, Pendexter and Mundy – How Talbot Mundy and Hugh Pendexter helped win World War 1

Arthur S. Hoffman – The Editor’s Attitude Toward the Young Author

I fear the answers to your two questions, if adequate, would entail the writing of a small volume. Generalization is rather futile unless its statements be taken as subject to hundreds of modifying influences.In the first place, the attitude of magazine editors is not one attitude but almost as many as there are editors and… Continue reading Arthur S. Hoffman – The Editor’s Attitude Toward the Young Author

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B.M. Bower – Author biography

Bertha Muzzy Bower (1871-1940), aka B.M. Bower, was the first woman Western author to achieve wide success. She achieved this success under the pseudonym of B.M. Bower, with many fans thinking she was a man. Her first publishers banned her from telling the truth; afraid it might spoil the market for her work. She was… Continue reading B.M. Bower – Author biography

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Arthur S. Hoffman and the famous boy’s series he influenced

I asked a question in the previous post about Arthur S. Hoffman:   Which unknown writer was initially rejected by Hoffman, but took his advice in the rejection letter; went on to contribute to Adventure, and later author many books in a famous series for boys? Put your guesses, answers in comments.   Nobody guessed… Continue reading Arthur S. Hoffman and the famous boy’s series he influenced