All Western Magazine Cover

All Western (December 1950–January 1951, Vol. 1, No. 4) features four novelettes and four short stories. The lead novelette, "The Road to Sandoval" by Allan Vaughan Elston, follows Saguache Joe, a drifter robbed of his horse and gun at a water tank in Colorado. Arriving in Parkview by freight car, Joe learns of the Half Circle H ranch and heads south toward Sandoval, New Mexico, to meet old companions. A railroad agent asks him to deliver a message about a shipment of cottonseed-oil cake. Joe encounters the antagonistic Riff, a gunman connected to the Half Circle H through a previous killing. Other featured works include Harry Sinclair Drago's "Sunrise on the Cimarron," Frank Bonham's "Rodeo Killer," Ernest Haycox's "Skirmish at Dry Fork," and stories by John Colohan, Eugene Cunningham, S. Omar Barker, and Bill Gulick, covering themes of frontier romance, conflict, and adventure.