The Western & Frontier Fiction Magazine Index

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American Wild West Magazine [v9 #2, 1953] (Cleveland Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney, 1/-, 66pp, pulp) Details taken from eBay listing. Return of the Gunfighter · Marc Stevens · na Death Hits the Double Y · Roy James · ss Ruckus at the Bar Bar Ranch · Dan Reilly · ss

American Wild West Magazine [#4, 1953] (Cleveland Publishing Co. Pty Ltd., digest) Details taken from AustLit. Tall in the Saddle · Clint McCall · na

American Wild West Magazine [#7, 1954] (Cleveland Publishing Co. Pty Ltd., 64pp, digest) Incomplete Data - Issue not found - this issue contains 2 other short stories Details taken from AustLit. Need Contents Cross Trails · Garson Holt · na

American Wild West Magazine [#11, July 1954] ed. Jack Atkins (Cleveland Publishing Co. Pty Ltd., digest) Details taken from AustLit. Cold Decked · Peter Macalpine · ss Hand of Destiny · Walter Burnett · ss Double-Cross Dam · Peter Carmody · ss

American Wild West Magazine [#14, 1954] (Cleveland Publishing Co. Pty Ltd., digest) Details taken from AustLit. Hot Lead · Don Haring · na

American Wild West Magazine [#18, 1955] (Cleveland Publishing Co. Pty Ltd., digest) Details taken from AustLit. Gambling Saloon · Anon. · na

American Wild West Magazine [#21, 1955] (Cleveland Publishing Co. Pty Ltd., digest) Prairie Belle · Johnny Nelson · nv

American Wild West Magazine [#23, 1955] (Cleveland Publishing Co. Pty Ltd., digest) Details taken from AustLit. Lazy Lightning · Johnny Nelson · na

American Wild West Magazine [#24, 1955] (Cleveland Publishing Co. Pty Ltd., digest) Details taken from AustLit. Against the Law · Johnny Nelson · na

Arizona Western    (about)

Arizona Western [no date (Jan 1949)] (Brown Watson, 1/-, 32pp) Dead Man’s Draw · Peter Dawson · na Fifteen Western Tales Feb 1948 Tall Texan—Long Grave · Chester William Harrison · ss Fifteen Western Tales Feb 1948

Arrow Western Magazine    (about)

Arrow Western Magazine [v1 #2, February 1950] ed. John Panas (Dolphin Press (Pty.), Ltd., 1/6d, 48pp) 2 · The Bandits of Ghost Town · Tom Paine · ss 16 · Catch Bandeaux the Arms Smuggler · Tom Paine · ss 28 · Buck Thompson Visits Jackson City · Marshall Power · ss 42 · Mountain Gold · R. V. Parr · ss

Avon Western Reader    (about)

Avon Western Reader [#1, 1947] (Avon Book Company, 25¢, 128pp+, digest) Details taken from Table of Contents. 7 · Ride On, Troopers—and Die! · William R. Cox · ss Dime Western Magazine Jul 1942 22 · Better Dead · William MacLeod Raine · ss Short Stories Aug 25 1945 41 · Emptied Guns · Walt Coburn · nv Short Stories Feb 25 1945 72 · The Two Cartridges · Stewart Edward White · ss Blazed Trail Stories, McClure 1904 86 · A Day in Town · Ernest Haycox · ss Collier’s Jan 1 1938 100 · Wild Bill’s Gun Proxy · Dee Linford · ss Dime Western Magazine Nov 1943

Avon Western Reader [#2, 1947] (Avon Book Company, 25¢, 128pp+, digest) Anthology of six Western tales from various magazines. 7 · Nailed Down · Harry Sinclair Drago · nv The Wild Bunch and Other Stories, Doubleday 1925 36 · Weight of Command · Ernest Haycox · ss Collier’s Mar 16 1940 48 · The Idyl of Red Gulch · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly Dec 1869 57 · Buried Treasure [Arizona Nights] · Stewart Edward White · nv McClure’s Jun 1906 85 · Dick Fellows · Joseph Henry Jackson · ss Tintypes in Gold, Macmillan 1939 103 · The Man with the Glass Eye [Black John Smith; Halfaday Creek] · James B. Hendryx · nv Short Stories Feb 10 1945

Avon Western Reader [#3, 1947] (Avon Book Company, 25¢, 128pp+, digest) Anthology of seven Western tales from various magazines. 7 · McQuestion Rides · Ernest Haycox · nv Collier’s Jun 20 1931 17 · He Died with His Boots Off · C. William Chamberlain · ms (r) 18 · Wild Bill Hiccup · Cornell Woolrich · ss Argosy Feb 5 1938 24 · He Jumped to Fame · C. William Chamberlain · ms (r) 25 · Shod Hoofs · Stephen Payne · ss Cowboy Stories Oct #1 1928 38 · Frontier Life Saver · C. William Chamberlain · ms (r) 39 · King Copper · Frank Gruber · na Short Stories Sep 25 1939 85 · The Postmistress of Laurel Run · Bret Harte · ss The Strand Magazine Sep 1891 100 · Magic of a Killer’s Name · Joe Archibald · ss Western Aces Sep 1944 112 · Mountain Man’s Joke · C. William Chamberlain · ms (r) 113 · The End of the Trail · William MacLeod Raine · ss Complete Western Book Magazine

Avon Western Reader [#4, 1947] (Avon Book Company, 25¢, 128pp+, digest) Details supplied by Rick Hall. 7 · Smoky Road · Frank Gruber · na Short Stories Nov 25 1945 43 · The Candle of the Wicked · William MacLeod Raine · ss Short Stories Feb 10 1938; given as by William MacDonald Raine. 55 · Flowers for a Hoss · Stephen Payne · ss West Jun 5 1926 66 · With Bated Breath · Ross Santee · ss Collier’s Apr 13 1935 71 · The Lobo of Saguero Bend [Hashknife Hartley] · W. C. Tuttle · na Short Stories Apr 10 1945

Ayjay Westerns    (about)

Ayjay Westerns [#53, 195?] (Ayers & James Pty. Ltd., 6d, digest) Details supplied by Theo Hristakos. Lynch-Rope Mob · Paul Vandenberg · nv Dead Man Tells · Charles Freeman · ss Gun-Shy Pioneer · Fred Yung · ss Killers Mistake · James Harding · ss

Ayjay Westerns [#56, 195?] (Ayers & James Pty. Ltd., 6d, digest) Details supplied by Theo Hristakos. The Black Devil · Linton Powell · nv Best Hated Man in Town · Harry D. Eastman · ss Owlseye · Norman Dawson · ss

Ayjay Westerns [#57, 195?] (Ayers & James Pty. Ltd., 6d, digest) Details taken from Table of Contents. You Can’t Escape the Gallows · Colin Brockwell · nv Crime Doesn’t Pay · Alf Teder · ss He Who Laughs Last... · James Blackburn · ss

Ayjay Westerns [#58, 195?] (Ayers & James Pty. Ltd., 6d, digest) Details supplied by Theo Hristakos. Double Trouble Dam · Charles Freeman · nv Riptown Ruckus · Paul Vandenberg · ss Belled Spurs for Dandy · Fred Yung · ss Stone Didn’t Stop · James Harding · ss

Ayjay Westerns [#59, 195?] (Ayers & James Pty. Ltd., digest) Details taken from AustLit. Incomplete Data - Issue not found - this issue contains 3 other short stories Need Contents Desert Madness · Charles Freeman · ss

Ayjay Westerns [#61, 195?] (Ayers & James Pty. Ltd., digest) Details taken from AustLit. Incomplete Data - Issue not found - this issue contains 2 other short stories Need Contents The Sorcerer of the Wahsatch Mountains · Ray Barnett · ss

Ayjay Westerns [#62, 195?] (Ayers & James Pty. Ltd., 48pp, digest) Details taken from AustLit. Hot-Foot Buck · Claude Lane · ss The Bandit in the Red Sombrero · Allan Washbrook · ss

Ayjay Westerns [#64, 195?] (Ayers & James Pty. Ltd., 8d, digest) Details supplied by Theo Hristakos. Stiffneck · Edward Brooker · nv Deadmen’s Creek · Ben Hancock · ss

Badlands Western    (about) Thin Australian digest.

Badlands Western [195?] (Fitchett Brothers, 48pp, digest, cover by Andrea Bresciani) Details taken from AustLit. Incomplete Data - Issue not found - this issue contains 2 other short stories Need Contents The Right Fork · R. Kellaway · ss

Bar-X Western Magazine (UK)    (about)

Bar-X Western Magazine (UK) [#1, December 1947] (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd., pulp) Details supplied by Tom Daniels. Gun Talk Is Life · William King · nv Speed Western Stories Feb 1946, as by Laurence Donovan Law Boss for a Day · T. W. Ford · na Popular Western Nov 1945 Two Cheat the Hangman · Al Carson · ss Western Trails Feb 1945, as by J. Edward Leithead Peace Wanted · Jack Johnson · ss

Best Stories of All Time: Throughout its life this was a reprint magazine similar to The Golden Book, publishing a broad spectrum of material with the strongest influence being initially that of adventure stories. When the name changed to Pioneer Tales the emphasis shifted more toward western stories, with a surprising number of fantastic stories as well.

Clever Truths

Clever Truths [v1 #1, June 1925] Issue not found. Need Contents

Clever Truths [v1 #2, July 1925] Incomplete Data - Issue not found. Need Contents She [Part 1 of 6; Ayesha] · H. Rider Haggard · n. Harper 1886; abridged.

Clever Truths [v1 #3, August 1925] Incomplete Data - Issue not found. Need Contents She [Part 2 of 6; Ayesha] · H. Rider Haggard · n. Harper 1886; abridged.

Best Stories of All Time Title changed from Clever Truths.

Best Stories of All Time [v1 #4, September 1925] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by Doris Lane) Details supplied by David Lee Smith. 6 · The Scarlet Letter [Part 1 of 3] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · n. Ticknor & Fields 1850; abridged. 21 · The Reconcelement · John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire · pm (r) 21 · The Flowers · William Brighty Rands · pm (r) 22 · The Accursed House · Émile Gaboriau; translated by E. C. Waggener · ss Short Stories Feb 1893; translated from the French. 24 · Life · Anna Laetitia Barbauld · pm The Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green 1825 25 · The Pragmatic Sanction · Samuel Merwin · ss McClure’s Sep 1920 31 · Do Tell a Story · Richard H. Little · ms (r) 32 · Among the College Humorists · Anon. · hu (r) 34 · The Broken Cup · Heinrich Zschokke; translated by Parke Godwin · ss (r); from Tales from the German of Heinrich Zschokke, 1845. 41 · Love · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm The Morning Post Dec 21 1799 42 · She [Part 3 of 6; Ayesha] · H. Rider Haggard · n. Harper 1886; abridged. 57 · The Wonders of Training · Anon. · ct (r) 58 · The Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine Feb 1892, as “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” 67 · I Loved a Lass · George Wither · pm (r) 68 · What They Laugh at in Europe · Anon. · hu (r) 70 · A Carolina Night’s Entertainment · Gouverneur Morris · ss Metropolitan Magazine Feb 1913 75 · The Tapestried Chamber · Sir Walter Scott · ss The Keepsake, 1829 1828 80 · Ah, How Sweet It Is to Love · John Dryden · pm The Works of John Dryden, William Miller 1808 81 · A Snapshot at the President · O. Henry · vi Rolling Stones, Doubleday 1912 82 · Kubla Khan · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm Christabel/Kubla Khan/The Pains of Sleep, John Murray 1816 83 · The Ghost · Guy de Maupassant · ss Allouma and Other Tales, Holland Pub. Co. 1895, as “The Spectre”; translated from the French (“Apparition”, Le Gaulois, April 4, 1883). 86 · Radio Be Derned · Anon. · hu (r) 87 · Son of a Sheik · Frank Norris · vi (r) 90 · A Pair of Red Stockings · Pedro Bazan · vi (r) 92 · Clever Truths · Anon. · ms (r)

Best Stories of All Time [v1 #5, October 1925] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by Doris Lane) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 6 · Peter God · James Oliver Curwood · ss Doubleday, Page & Co. 1914 14 · Love · William Shakespeare · pm (r) 15 · The Spectacles · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Dollar Newspaper Mar 27 1844 24 · The Avenger · Mary Roberts Rinehart · ss The Popular Magazine Nov 1908 28 · The Sirens’ Song [from The Inner Temple Masque] · William Browne · pm The Works of William Browne, T. Davies 1772 29 · Miss Claiborne Foster, Success · The Inquirer · iv 32 · Among the College Humorists · Anon. · hu 34 · The Scarlet Letter [Part 2 of 3] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · n. Ticknor & Fields 1850; abridged. 50 · The Grand Marriage · Ludovic Halévy · nv (r) 58 · What the Bullet Sang · Bret Harte · pm Harper’s Weekly Aug 26 1876 59 · Lost by a Laugh · Honoré de Balzac · ss Shorter Stories from Balzac, Walter Scott 1890; translated from the French (Autre Étude de Femme, Conard, 1842). 61 · Phillida and Coridon · Nicholas Breton · pm Englands Helicon, ed. John Flasket 1600 62 · What They Laugh at in Europe · Anon. · hu 64 · The Love Quarrel · Agnes Strickland · ss (r) 71 · To His Coy Love · Michael Drayton · pm Poems 1619 72 · The Wedding of Jenny Distaff · Richard Steele · vi (r) 73 · Margarite Sofori · William Ernest Henley · pm (r) 74 · The Item Wasn’t Worth While · Ed Mott · vi (r) 75 · What Three Men Say of Three Women · [Various] · ms 76 · She [Part 4 of 6; Ayesha] · H. Rider Haggard · n. Harper 1886; abridged. 91 · Last Days of a Condemned Man · Victor Hugo · ex (r) 96 · Clever Truths · Anon. · ms