Pulp Fiction, 1934 · page 11 of 148
Western Story Magazine, May 12, 1934 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Page Content Analysis This is the opening page of a serialized Western story titled "Outlaws of Calico Hole" by Frank Richardson Pierce. The page features a dramatic illustration at the top showing two mounted cowboys in a desert landscape with cacti, signed by the artist. Below is Chapter I ("Over the Wall"), which introduces a gaunt, sickly man arriving at a ranch house near Calico Hole—a notorious outlaw hideout. The man, revealed to be Bud Coe, has apparently just been released from jail and seeks shelter with a young woman named Alice Ford, who lives in the lawless region and is accustomed to harboring wounded fugitives.
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CAA fo iek 5 ioe 4 ° aon « tee NEECGENH OFELIA nig Ss ‘ . ** A) -* < t ry . - 4 .4n% + . * Ys: CALICO HOLE By FRANK RICHARDSON PIERCE Author of “Patriarch of the Peaks,” etc. CHAPTER I. OVER THE WALL. GHOST of a man whose wasted face was the color of old cheese dismounted at Calico Springs, drank briefly from the cool wa- ter, then trudged up the path to the Ford ranch house. “Hello!” he called. “Hey! Alice! Alice Ford!” His shouting ended in- a violent fit of coughing. A slim girl with blond hair and tragic eyes under startling dark brows came hurriedly to the door and stared briefly. Her expression indicated she was prepared for al- most anything. Living near Calico Hole, the hang-out of the Sanchez outlaws, had taught her to expect wounded and often dying men, but this creature whose face was the color of old cheese dismayed her. “Come in,” she invited. “Why, it's Bud Coe!” “What’s left of him,’ Coe said hoarsely. “A year.in Beasley's jails,