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Buckaroo’s Back; or, Cowboy Facts 16 and 15

You ever go through life thinking you should’ve written that novel/filmed that movie/accepted that job/kissed that girl or guy/said yes when someone asked you to strip in front of a camera/handed that...

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Labor Day’s Labor; or, Revising to Hell and Back

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...

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Thirty Million Words Can’t Be Wrong; or, Max Brand and His Pulps

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...

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On the Procrastination Trail; or, From the Wild Western Collection

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...

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The Man from Laramie; or, The One-Two Punch of 1950s America

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...

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Sagas of Fighting Men and Flaming Guns; Max Brand’s Words Move Me

A mighty happy (um, late) birthday to Max Brand! He never thought much of his westerns between May 29, 1892 and May 12, 1944, but I can’t hold that against him for too long. If you had been named...

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