Pulp Fiction, 1953 · page 43 of 116
Fifteen Western Tales, January 1953 — page 43: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Page Analysis This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine, featuring an illustration at the top and the beginning of a Western story titled "Never Sell Your Saddle!" by H. A. DeRosso. The page shows a dramatic pen-and-ink illustration of a cowboy on horseback alongside another figure, accompanying an opening about a character named Clinton who has just discovered his white mare dead on the range. The text emphasizes the importance of never parting with one's saddle—a cowboy's most essential possession—as a matter of survival and pride on the frontier.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
By H. A. DEROSSO It was at moments like these that ‘Clinton regretted he’d sold his gun! NEVER SELL YOUR SADDLE! When ‘your stomach thinks \ JHEN young Clinton awoke, he found the white mare lying on her side, dead. This did not surprise him too much. The mare had been rather set afoot on a strange and old and young Clinton had been fully aware the day before that the mare did not have long to go. Still, she was all the horse he’d ° had and -her death left him feeling sad and thing you never let go—your pecan : saddle. And if you’re as lucky There was not much that he could do. He would have liked to have buried her but he lacked the tools. He thought of covering her with rocks but, after looking around, he concluded there were not enough stones your throat’s cut, and you’re hostile range, you’ve got one as Ernie Clinton, you’ have one more asset—a fierce and unconquerable pride! | in the vicinity. The mare would have to | 43. COMicOOoks.conn