Cowboy Short Stories, November 1939

COWBOY SHORT STORIES, Vol. II, No. 4, November 1939

This issue contains twelve Western stories. "Gun Orphan of the Owl-Hoot" by Ed Earl Repp opens with Danny Moore meeting a beautiful woman, leading him to don guns and swear vengeance for a murder. "Rio Colt Riot" by C. William Harrison follows Deputy Marshal Wink Dixon, whose unconventional gun draw proves fatal. "Men Must Die!" by Adam Mann features Neil McLean defending his Flying M ranch against forged debt claims. "The Bloody-Handed One" by Charles Clay describes a Swede who hung a Chipewan's traps, condemning the Indian to starvation, only to face vengeance. "Fighting Coward" by B. Mann presents Dan Coward accepting cowardice to spare a girl tragedy. Additional stories by Mojave Lloyd, L. L. Thompson, Eric Thane, Kenneth P. Wood, Rollin Brown, and Dick Robson follow similar patterns of gunfights, redemption, and frontier violence. "Rattlesnake Ike" by Trail Boss is noted as a factual feature of the historical West.