10 STORY WESTERN - Volume 18, number 1 - September 1942 by Anonymous (editor) (M Howard Lane; Harry F. Olmsted; Art Lawson; Fremont Ward; Rolland Lynch; L. Ernenwein; John G. Pearsol; Jack Bloodhart; Miles Pierson; Gunnison Steele) - 1942

Toronto: Popular Publications, 1942. 96 pp. Light but general wear. This issue contains: Rebellion at Cavalry Creek by M. Howard Lane; Gunmen Pay in Blood by Harry F. Olmstead; Kansas Law for Texas Drovers by Art Lawson; Boothill's Election Extra by Fremont Ward; Death Names a Wagon Master by Rolland Lynch; Talk Fast or Die by L. Ernenwein; Range for the Damned by John G. Pearsol; The Hero Who Couldn't Quit by Jack Bloodhart; Ranger Drifter Grave Maker by Miles Pierson; Satan Picks a Saddlemate by Gunnison Steele; and West for the Spice of Life by The Editor. The Western as an actual genre started in the penny dreadfuls of the late 1800s, which later became the dime novels. Published in June 1860, Malaeska; the Indian Wife of the White Hunter is considered the first dime novel, though most of the dime novels romanticized the lives of real wild west characters from Wild Bill Hickock and Wyatt Earp to all the other famous and infamous people of the time, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, et cetera. When Zane Gray published Riders of the Purple Sage and when Clarence Mulford started his Hopalong Cassidy series, the Western became incredibly popular. And then the Western pulps started up in the 1920s, spawning such writers as Max Brand, Luke Short, Louis L'Amour and a host of others. And they thrived into the 1950s but were likely wiped out by television and the popular TV series of the time, such as Wanted Dead or Alive, Trackdown, Bonanza, Wagon Train, Have Gun Will Travel and many, many more. The Western isn't nearly as popular as it once was, but people still like the genre. New Westerns are published or filmed every year but the roots are still back in the pulps and the dime novels.. First Printing - First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to. Book.