Archive for 'Old West'
Cinco de Mayo and Pulp Fiction: Bandits and Soldaderas
By Paula R. Stiles Golden Gazette News As a former colony like the United States, Mexico has a history that in some ways mirrors that of its northern neighbor. It’s had a fight for independence (in [...]
Pulp Fiction & Chronicle of the Old West
Dakota and Sunny Livesay, who run the website, newspaper and radio show Chronicle of the Old West, keep alive the spirit of the cowboy and the trail with their preservation and dissemination of history—but in a [...]
Cowboys & Their Horses, from Pulp Fiction to the Silver Screen
By Thomas McNulty, Golden Gazette News A cowboy’s best friend was his horse. His horse provided not only reliable transportation but was critical to surviving the sometimes harsh elements of the Wild West. A cowboy’s saddlebag, [...]
Golden Age Trivia: Cowboys—The Boots Make the Man
by Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News One of the most popular categories in pulp fiction was the western. The cowboy led a tough life, living in the open much of the time as he tended cattle [...]
Wild Western Lingo from the 1930s & 1940s: Rough Stuff
Hear that? That’s the sound of justice being administered in the Old West—or maybe the sound of a stagecoach being held up. In the 1930s and 1940s, writers of pulp fiction westerns had to know their [...]
Wild Western Lingo from the 1930s & 1940s: Old West Folk
In the 1930s and 1940s, writers of pulp fiction westerns swept readers back in time to the plains of the Old West with larger-than-life characters who took justice into their own hands. Pulp fiction magazines brought [...]
Wild Western Lingo from the 1930s & 1940s: Cowboy Garb
In the 1930s and 1940s, writers of pulp fiction westerns knew all the right words as they set the stage for rough-and-tumble heroes who single-handedly beat back the bad guys, bringing justice where there was none [...]
Wild Western Lingo from the 1930s & 1940s: Cowboy Slang
The pulp fiction writers of the 1930s and 1940s who spun tales of the Old West had to know how to make their readers feel they were right there in the midst of the adventure. Top [...]
The Texas & Arizona Rangers Influence on Pulp Fiction
By Thomas McNulty, Golden Gazette News The lawmen of the west are a legendary bunch—fearless, determined and dedicated to bringing justice to the wild and wooly west. Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson all [...]
Golden Age Trivia: The 13 Steps to Death
In the story Death Waits at Sundown, Lynn Taylor is trying to save his kid brother from walking the 13 steps of the gallows to his death. The significance of the 13 steps is in the history [...]
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