Pulp Fiction, 1934 · page 56 of 148
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# Cowboy Samson - Story Opening Page This is the opening page of a western pulp fiction story titled "Cowboy Samson" by Guthrie Brown. The page features a illustration at the top showing two cowboys on horseback in a desert landscape, followed by the story's title and author attribution. Below that begins the prose narrative, introducing characters Lafe Hunt and Lew Schraber in what appears to be a ranch dispute over an employee named Bascom Parr. The text establishes a conflict where Hunt demands Schraber fire Parr or he will quit, while Schraber responds by calling Parr in to address the complaint.
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COWBOY SAMSON By GUTHRIE BROWN Author of “Turn in the Trail,” etc. ND you expect me to put up with such a thumb- handed mountain while you're gone? Well, boss, if you think I’m goin’ to take the responsibility of this here ranch for a month and be pestered to death with that dim-wit steam shovel of a Bascom Parr, you got another think comin’. You fire him or I ride down the road. It’s bad enough when you're at home here to pick up the pieces, but with you gone, I’d go nuts in three days.” Thus did Lafe Hunt deliver him- self, standing in chaps and a red- and-yellow plaid shirt before Lew Schraber. The old rancher, wizened, dyspeptic, irascible, took two turns across the living-room floor with his bony hands gripped behind his back. “Call him in! Call him in!” Schraber barked. “What’s got you so blamed sensitive to Bascom all of a sudden? The boy’s been here six months, and this is the first I’ve heard about his ruinin’ the peace of 33