Pulp Fiction, 1955 · page 44 of 101
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# "The Texas Kind" by William Ransom This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine, featuring prose narrative alongside an illustration. The text follows a character named Larribee, a man who has ridden from Wyoming to Texas seeking distance from romantic troubles with a woman named Millie, only to encounter another woman he finds equally troublesome. The accompanying illustration depicts a dramatic scene where Larribee's horse has struck a ground hog hole and broken its leg, leaving him stranded in the harsh Texas landscape. The page establishes the Western setting and Larribee's predicament through both descriptive prose and vivid black-and-white artwork.
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“SHE SUN was like the baleful eye of a Satan in vengeful 4. mood. It shone over the land- scape with heat that fried a man’s temper along -with whatever bacon might be in his saddlebags. Larribee had no need of the sun to rasp his temper, and there was very little bacon in his saddlebags. He tilt- ed his black hat down over one eye, sat on a rock in the partial shade of a mangy mesquite...and viewed the dry brown terrain with the calm an- ger of a man who’d been taught to be stoical in times of stress, to be a phil- osopher. Patience is a great virtue His horse had struck a ground hog hole and snapped a leg. for those who can afford it—and when you’re down on your luck, it’s about the only thing you can afford. So you wanted to come to Texas to get away from that two-legged filly name of Millie. Try to run away from your troubles and maybe you find some new troubles that make you yearn for the old ones. Distance, the killer of bad mem- ories. It was a long way from here to there in Wyoming always. But this Texas beat anything a man ever saw. It went on forever. All the ranches Larribee had ridden | all the way from| Wyoming to forget | an untamable two- | legged filly. Now | here was another | one, twice as can-| tankerous... | ‘ ie NX ih S y ; . Sem. tae » oS ) : yl Cad ee P77) ad _ iy” X EldDOO CO CO