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Finnish Westerns: A Brief Survey into a Genre | By Juri Nummelin. Many western novels and short stories have been written in Finnish by Finnish writers. This may seem an anomaly, but some critics have said that western myth is clearly a European myth.
The American Westerns in Finland: From Pulps to Paperbacks | By Juri Nummelin. The Western has been widely read and published in Finland for a long time. It has been a popular genre with the working classes and, even though it has not always been accepted by the literary elite, it has been a popular genre with young readers. Many classics have been translated into Finnish, and they have influenced many Finnish writers.
Continuing Characters in Texas Rangers Magazine | The Pulp Rack’s contributing equine expert and pulp collector, Jim Griffin, provides this succinct description of the various continuing characters that populated the Texas Rangers pulp magazine.
Continuing Characters in Texas Rangers Magazine | The Pulp Rack’s contributing equine expert and pulp collector, Jim Griffin, provides this succinct description of the various continuing characters that populated the Texas Rangers pulp magazine.
Horses in the West: Reality vs. Fiction | The images and perceptions of the horse in most media are as far removed from reality as the image of every cowboy as a two-fisted, Colt-throwing gunslinger. An article by The Pulp Rack's horse expert, Jim Griffin.
Kirby Jonas | Our busy horse-riding contributor Jim Griffin joins us with another article from the trail. Take it away, Jim: Kirby Jonas:...
Riding The Pulp Range | Author and fanzine publisher Howard Hopkins provides this article about the survival of the pulp western in our contemporary world: Black Horse Westerns.
Cowboy Music | Fans of Western Pulps might like information on where Cowboy or Western Music is still available. I'm not talking about what passes for so-called "Country" on most of today's homogenized FM stations, but genuine Western music, by Western artists. There's nothing better than sitting back with a Western story while cowboy songs play in the background.
The Comanche's Ghost: Western Pulp Lives | If you like the sort of western stories that hark to the days of fast-action pulp magazines; to the solidly entertaining B movies in which heroes were heroes, no matter what sort of crises they faced; then the western novels of Howard Hopkins are for you.
"Team Work" | It's a light but fun piece of reading -- don't be turned off just because it appeared in a romance magazine.
Seltzer's Take on Tom Horn | The popularity of Owen Wister's The Virginian opened up the western story field as a viable literary market for writers....
Man From Wyoming | The great value of this volume is in the marvelous Foreword by editor Jon Tuska that provides a short critical biography of author Coolidge (1873-1940) and serves as an excellent introduction to this writer and his work.
Texas Rangers Magazine | Texas Rangers Magazine was published monthly from October 1936 to April 1938, with the exception of January 1937, when no issue was published...
The Exotic Wild West | Western stories probably covered more pulp pages with ink than any other sort of story. There were many, many pulps devoted solely to western fiction -- some general western magazines, such as Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine and Dime Western, and others that took a cue from the hero pulps, like Pete Rice Western, Rio Kid Western, and Texas Rangers magazine. And westerns also appeared in magazines like All-Story, Adventure, Argosy, and Blue Book. In fact, one of the longest-lasting pulps was a western: Ranch Romances, which finally ended its run in 1971.
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The Masterman by Max Brand: A Review | Dorchester Publishing’s packaging of this novel provides a couple of false leads to its readers. First, although the cover of this paperback edition depicts a man wearing typical mountain man attire, The Masterman is not a mountain man story. Nor is it a western. Instead, this novel is one of Faust’s northerns.
The Men Who Make The Argosy: Max Brand | What was Frederick Faust up to on June 14, 1941? Find out here! Plus a link to Warren Harris' excellent pulp fanzine, Back Numbers Can Be Easily Procured.
Frederick Faust's Abrupt Endings | Frederick Faust's stories frequently seem to defy the traditional plot arc, in which a denouement -- or falling action that wraps up loose ends -- follows the climax. More than one reader has commented with a grumble about the abrupt endings of Faust's stories. With the body of his tale told, the author seems to have no interest in providing a typical sense of closure to his readers. Like a rocket that has expended all its fuel and then falls to earth, a Faust story speeds pell-mell to its climax, and then stops.
The Official Max Brand Site | The official Max Brand - Frederick Faust site has been updated with a new design and content.
Alcatraz: Novel and Movie | A look at the translation of Max Brand's novel to film, starring Tom Mix and his wonder horse, Tony!
Photo-Biblio: 1924 a | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1924.
Photo-Biblio: 1924 b | A further visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1924.
Photo-Biblio: 1925 | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1925.
Photo-Biblio: 1926 | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1926.
Photo-Biblio: 1927 a | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1927.
Photo-Biblio: 1927 b | A further visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1927.
Photo-Biblio: 1928 a | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1928.
Photo-Biblio: 1928 b | A further visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1928.
Photo-Biblio: 1929 | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1929.
Photo-Bibliography: 1930 | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1930.
Photo-Biblio: 1931 | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1931.
Photo-Biblio: 1932 | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1932.
Photo-Biblio: 1933 a | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1933.
Photo-Biblio: 1933 b | A further visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1933.
Photo-Biblio: 1934 a | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1934.
Photo-Biblio: 1934 b | A further visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1934.
Photo-Biblio: 1935 a | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1935.
Photo-Biblio: 1935 b | A further visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1935.
Photo-Biblio: 1936 a | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1936.
Photo-Biblio: 1936 b | A further visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1936.
Photo-Biblio: 1936 c | A further visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1936.
Photo-Biblio: 1937 (a) | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1937.
Photo-Biblio: 1937 (b) | A further visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1937.
Photo-Biblio: 1937 (c) | A further visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1937.
Photo-Biblio: 1938 (a) | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1938.
Photo-Biblio: 1938 (b) | A further visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1938.
Photo-Biblio: 1939 | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1939.
Photo-Bibliography: 1940 | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1940.
Photo-Biblio: 1941 | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1941.
Photo-Biblio: 1942 | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1942.
Photo-Biblio: 1944 | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1944.
Photo-Biblio: 1948 | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1948.
Photo-Biblio: 1949 | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1949.
Photo-Bibliography: 1950 | A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1950.
Western Trios | Most of Frederick Faust's popularity has grown because of his novels. But it's likely that during his career he wrote...
Meet Max Brand | Max Brand, the most famous pseudonym of Frederick Faust, made his fictional Wild West an arena for the characters of myth and legend to live and battle again.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Faust! | Frederick Faust was born in May 29, 1892. So 2002 marks the 110th birthday of the "King of the Pulps!"
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