Westerns - Pulpflakes

Cherry Wilson – Western Author

“Cherry” Wilson was one of the marquee authors of Western Story Magazine, getting listed on the cover every time she appeared. She wrote more than a hundred stories in 20 years from 1921 to 1943; more than 5 of her novels in print during her lifetime, and six of her stories were made into movies.… Continue reading Cherry Wilson – Western Author

Archie Joscelyn – Western Author

Archie Joscelyn had a writing career spanning nearly 40 years, wrote about 300 stories for the western pulps, and more than 200 novels under 12 pen names. Enjoy reading this article about him in the Montana Helena Observer, dated April 30, 2005. I haven’t seen it reposted anywhere. http://helenair.com/lifestyles/western-wonder/article_db7b9bfc-313d-56d9-8776-d503d679b9b6.html

Robert J. Horton – Western Author, Journalist

Another prolific author from Western Story, and the mentor of Walt Coburn. This is the first detailed biography of him online. Author Robert J. Horton c. 1924 Robert J. Horton was born in Coudersport, Pennsylvania on 6 October, 1885. He was the son of LaDrue and Elizabeth McCormick Horton. His father was a local masonry contractor,… Continue reading Robert J. Horton – Western Author, Journalist

Bennett Foster – Western Author, Teacher

Bennett Foster Foster, Bennett (1897-1969) (stories) Author of westerns; perhaps a pseudonym. That’s all the FictionMags Index currently has to say about this prolific author of westerns, who wrote more than 200 stories and serials from 1929 to 1956. A cursory search turns up six film and TV credits, three before his death and three… Continue reading Bennett Foster – Western Author, Teacher

H. A. DeRosso – photo found

Found a photo of H. A. De Rosso in the August, 1953 issue of Gunsmoke magazine and updated the article on him. Enjoy.

Fanny Ellsworth article on writing western stories for Ranch Romances

Fanny Ellsworth, editor of Ranch Romances and Black Mask magazine Fanny Ellsworth was one of the many uncredited women editors of the pulps who did an excellent job editing Ranch Romances – the longest running pulp that appeared from 1924 to 1971 – and Black Mask (the premier detective pulp that had the first print appearances… Continue reading Fanny Ellsworth article on writing western stories for Ranch Romances

Dee Linford – Western Author, Journalist, Technical Writer

Dee Linford is not a well known author today, remembered if at all as the author of the story Man Without A Star, which was made into two movies, Man Without A Star (1955), A Man Called Gannon (1968), and an episode of a TV series, The Virginian, in 1963. He wrote a series of… Continue reading Dee Linford – Western Author, Journalist, Technical Writer

Improbably beautiful covers #1 – Western Story Magazine, December 21, 1929 cover by Gayle Hoskins

Western Story Magazine, December 21, 1929 cover by Gayle Hoskins Another minute, and there would have been only a red dot on the ground, so i suppose this was the more interesting moment…a very well painted one at that. Gayle Hoskins manages to give the impression of a immense herd of bison very well in… Continue reading Improbably beautiful covers #1 – Western Story Magazine, December 21, 1929 cover by Gayle Hoskins

A muse on a mule

From Short Stories, January 10th, 1946 comes this poem from S. Omar Barker:

Interview with Gordon D. Shirreffs, Western writer

Gordon D. Shirreffs: An Interview with a Western Writer Carole Shirreffs Cox My father is Gordon D. Shirreffs. He has written 79 novels of the West as well as hundreds of short stories, pulps, and TV and movie scripts since he first began to sell what he wrote in the 1940s. He visited… Continue reading Interview with Gordon D. Shirreffs, Western writer