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What to do when your long-awaited field trip to the West didn’t produce lanky cowboys dropping into your lap? Buy one. Take this tall glass of cool water I found at a Long Beach bookstore. A twofer special from Monarch, from the collection of es Monarch Books doesn’t reveal the illustrator of this western by King of Cowboy Lit . . . → Read More: Brand Fires on the Fridge; or An Out-West Pin-Up Souvenir  Ah, the beauty of pulpish western cover art, filled to the brim with all the perfect 1950s western cover clichés, combined and intertwined in a perfect union of cinematic, pulp western majesty.
Can life get any better? You might recognize the title, perhaps? Anthony Mann’s films with James Stewart, such as The Man from Laramie (1955) are . . . → Read More: The Man from Laramie; or, The One-Two Punch of 1950s America  Leave a comment  Cowboy Mythos, Cowgirl Mythos, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, Movie Quotes, Pulp Westerns and Paperbacks; Book Reviews, The Good the Bad the Fugly  anthony mann, cowboy code, cowboy diplomacy, cowboy hero, Cowboy Mythos, james stewart, man from laramie, Movie Quotes, paperback westerns, pulp illustrators, pulp westerns, silver-screen western hero, t. t. flynn, western movies, westerns, what would a cowboy do Beside my desk is a tall rack of westerns, part of my 350+ collection (a sign of an obsessed mind, yes). It’s perfect for procrastination purposes… Trail of the Macaw, by Eugene Cunningham Popular Library, 1950 from the collection of es …such as when I admired this beaut, from 1950. It has the . . . → Read More: On the Procrastination Trail; or, From the Wild Western Collection 2 comments Cowboy Mythos, Cowgirl Mythos, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, Pulp Westerns and Paperbacks; Book Reviews, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Wrangling a Novel cowboy hero, Eugene cunningham, paperback westerns, Popular Library, procrastination tips, pulp illustrators, pulp westerns, robert stanley, trail of the macaw, western cliches What better way to be miserable over the slow pace of revisions than celebrating a prolific author? THE MAN I LOVE TO HATE
Frederick Faust, aka Max Brand Max Brand (Frederick Schiller Faust) wrote close to 30,000,000 words in his lifetime, and was clocked at 12,000 . . . → Read More: Thirty Million Words Can’t Be Wrong; or, Max Brand and His Pulps 2 comments Pulp Westerns and Paperbacks; Book Reviews, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Wrangling a Novel cowboy hero, destry rides again, gerald gregg, max brand, novel writing is no fun, paperback westerns collection, paperback westerns. destry, popular library westerns, pulp illustrators, pulp westerns, timbal gulch trail One man’s labor is another man’s play. One man’s Labor Day is another reason to hole up and continue revising a novel. If I were a paperback western at this moment in novel revisions, I would look like this beauty, which is like the western version of Shiva, the many armed destroyer.
Apache Crossing . . . → Read More: Labor Day’s Labor; or, Revising to Hell and Back Back in the late 1800s, she was hawtness personified–Annie Oakley, sharpshooting superstar, a favorite of Buffalo Bill, Chief Sitting Bull, and European royalty. She was the idol of American youth. No, she wasn’t a cussin’, mannish, cross-dressing kind of gal. She was a typical late-1800s lady, decked out in heavy skirts and petticoats and awesomely cute . . . → Read More: Happy Birthday to Real-Life Cowgirl Hero Annie Oakley Leave a comment Cowgirl Mythos, Men Were Men and Women Were Women, On This Day in Western History, Origins and Originals, Reach for the Skies!, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Western World Events annie oakley, annie oakley birthday, buffalo bill, buffalo bill's wild west show, Cowboy Mythos, cowboylands, cowgirl, frank butler, pulp illustrators, reach for the skies, sharpshooting women, wild west, women in old west Thankfully the Northeast has cooled off, because it was getting a little “Hot Town” on us.
Hot Town by Frank Malachy Cover illustration by Tom Ryan Perma . . . → Read More: Too Damn Hot; Heat Wave Rage Another movie for the Iranian president to see, or any other person who yearns to be a movie-type cowboy instead of a real one. Lonely Are the Brave, filmed in 1962 with Kirk Douglas as the drifter rejecting the modern West, and the great Gena Rowlands and Walter Matthau as his costars. 2 comments Best Western Lists, Cowboy Mythos, Film Reviews, Movie Quotes, Pulp Westerns and Paperbacks; Book Reviews, Wild Western Web cowboy code, Cowboy Mythos, edward abbey, kirk douglas, lonely are the brave, Movie Quotes, paperback westerns, pulp illustrators, roy gifford, the brave cowboy, western movies, westerns Badlands, by Bennett Foster “They Branded Him an Outlaw!” says it all. This dynamic man is the “little guy,” the proverbial clever tailor who can knock down an armed giant/gunman with a flip of his lariat. Go ahead and try it, any of . . . → Read More: Outlaws ‘R’ Us The first Western novel I read was The Virginian, by Owen Wister. I was in pursuit of an original experience, because being a child of the seventies–a decade of pop image, synthetics, and appropriation–what I believed about life was usually a mishmash of half-remembered and vicarious experiences through books, movies, and blacklight posters. I began to . . . → Read More: Where to Find a Real Man |
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