Pulp Fiction, 1953 · page 63 of 116
Fifteen Western Tales, January 1953 — page 63: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a story page from a pulp fiction magazine titled "The Medicine Wire" by Bennett Foster. The page opens a frontier adventure story about Andy Curtis, described as an unsung hero who maintains telegraph lines while defending against Sioux raids. The visible text introduces the setup: three Minneconjou Sioux warriors ride toward the Platte valley telegraph line, with one character calling it a "medicine wire" that carries messages for white settlers. The illustration depicts a mounted frontiersman on horseback near a telegraph pole.
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THE MEDICINE WIRE By BENNETT FOSTER Andy Curtis was one of the quiet, unsung heroes of the _ frontier, where fighting off marauding Sioux and fixing the talking wire, so that a message of peace could inspire the world, was all in the day’s work! Andy Curtis rode the line of poles, looking at the wires. Rifles boomed in the rocks.... HERE was a sharp wind blowing when the three Minneconjou Sioux came down the slope of Crying Wom- an butte into the valley of the Platte. They argued with each other as they rode south toward the telegraph line. | | “Tt is a medicine wire,” Fights His Horses declared. “It carries messages for the white 463 NOOLKS CONMIG C©