Pulp Fiction, 1953 · page 81 of 116
Fifteen Western Tales, January 1953 — page 81: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine, showing the opening of a short story titled "Sad Nose Joe—Rain-Maker!" by Harold Helfer. The page features a dramatic illustration of a Native American man with a lasso on the left side, and the story text presented as a letter to the "Great White Father in Washington." The narrative, written in stereotypical dialect, describes Sad Nose Joe's predicament: his Chippewa tribe is suffering from drought and demands he make rain, but he blames the town of Gunsmoke for interfering with rain clouds using aircraft.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
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