Westerns of the 40's: Classics from the Great Pulps

by Damon Knight (Editor)

Contents:

Gun-devil of red God desert / by Tom Roan
Boss of buckskin empire / by Cliff Farrell
Good-by, mimbres kid / by Frank Bonham
Bearhide's moonshine war / by Roy M. O'Mara
Teetotal and the six-gun spirits / by Murray Leinster
Flatwheel draws the line / by Tom W. Blackburn
The line camp terror / by Walt Coburn
Hell trail pilgrim / by Murray Leinster
The parson of owlhoot junction / by Charles W. Tyler
Trail city's hot-lead crusaders / by Clifford D. Simak
Crazy springs' write-in vote / by Roy M. O'Mara
Col. Colt buys a border herd / by Bennett Foster
The corpse rides at dawn / by John D. MacDonald
The long arm of the law / by James Shaffer
By the guns forgot / by Murray Leinster
Deadman's derringers / by Tom W. Blackburn

Genres: Westerns

342 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Damon Francis Knight was an American science fiction author, editor, and critic.
Knight's first professional sale was a cartoon drawing to a science-fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His first story, "Resilience", was published in 1941. He is best known as the author of "To Serve Man", which was adapted for The Twilight Zone. He was a recipient of the Hugo Award, founder of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), cofounder of the National Fantasy Fan Federation, cofounder of the Milford Writer's Workshop, and cofounder of the Clarion Writers Workshop. Knight lived in Eugene, Oregon, with his wife Kate Wilhelm.

Reviews

[Charles]

This is a collection of western stories by various authors from the pulp years. They were OK but nothing really stood out tremendously for me.