Pulp Fiction, 1953 · page 108 of 116
Fifteen Western Tales, January 1953 — page 108: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This page contains the **conclusion of a Western story** ("Fifteen Western Tales," continued from page 72) alongside **vintage advertisements** from an early-20th-century pulp magazine. The story prose describes a tense scene where characters stand on a muddy slope during threatening weather. A man named Joel Kalder confronts Bill Shawn on a high perch as wind threatens to topple them. Shawn begins climbing toward Kalder, who pulls a revolver and fires, shooting Shawn in the head. The narrative breaks off mid-sentence. The left column features period advertisements for correspondence courses and mail-order products: plastics training, hypnotism instruction, horsesmanship training, tobacco cessation treatment, a poetry contest, and a free arthritis book.
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Write today to The Ball Clinic, Dept. 16, Excel- sior Springs, Missouri. 108 - ROMAR "PLO.B. yen Wo "There ere RICH OPPORTUNITIES for MEN and WOMEN FIFTEEN WESTERN TALES (Continued from page 72) © selves to pieces, and then find our caravan is split by a tilted ocean of mud? There’s nothing left on this slope but loose dirt; it’ll wash and wash you with it. Look down the slope! Look down! I dare you! Do you — want to wash down that hill into the valley?” The wind was stronger now and all felt it pushing them, and felt themselves teetering, as people will in high places. But still, Joel Kalder stood on his perch far above them with the wind whipping at him. A drop of water spattered on Bill Shawn’s forehead. Something began to flame inside him. There was one thing Kalder couldn’t do, and that was, ask the heavens for water. That much, Shawn knew. He could not ex- plain it to them. He hadn’t the words. But now he wasn’t inclined to talk. He began to climb. He pulled himself up the taut rope, clawing his boots at the slope. He climbed steadily without speaking, looking directly up at the man on the rock. He thought only {that they were going to Oregon, and going there now, and no slick-mouthed shyster would stand in the way! Kalder cried, “You can’t touch me—” but his voice quavered as he cried out. He saw Shawn advancing relentlessly, big hands /hauling steadily at the rope, lifting himself as steadily and forcefully up the slope as another man might descend. Now Kalder | cried, “Ill stop you, Shawn, I'll stop you from leading us to ruin!” Kae long hand plunged into his pocket. He pulled out a revolver, a heavy, short-barreled weapon. He waved it | around his head and then leveled it on Bill Shawn’s face and cocked it. “I'll stop you, stop you!” | “Better call for some rain to stop me,” Shawn growled, and climbed on. It was only twenty feet now and he saw the man’s boots bracing on the rock as wind threatened to topple him. He saw Kalder’s coat whip, and then like a sudden blossoming, a red flash at the man’s fist. For a second it hid his fist and the gun. With one screaming swipe, Shawn’s hat was flung off and the bullet rapped and tore at his head. He shook his head and dragged himself on. Bill saw that Kalder had been thrown off balance by the kick of the gun and reckoned cComiclbooks CO