NEW WESTERN - Volume 6, number 7 - December 1943 by Anonymous. (editor) (LeRoy Boyd; Ruel McDaniel; Curtis Bishop; Gunnison Steele; Morgan Lewis; Ross Rocklynne; Jim Kjelgaard; Ben T. Young; Lee E. Wells; A. Kenneth Brent; Dan Kirby) - 1943

Toronto: Popular Publications, 1943. 96 pp. General wear. This issue contains: Westward to Blood and Glory by LeRoy Boyd; Furlough from the Dark Trails by Ruel McDaniel and Curtis Bishop; Blood Sweat and Bullwhips by Gunnison Steele; Hangnoose Substitute by Morgan Lewis; Telecote's Owlhoot Tutor by Ross Rocklynne; Dead Man's Dogs by Jim Kjelgaard; Blizzard Maverick by Ben T. Young; Steel to Painted Post by Lee E. Wells; and Chained to Glory by A. Kenneth Brent and Dan Kirby. 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.