2 Gun Western, May 1957 — page 19: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

DEATH OF A COWB by JOHN LUMSDEN None of it would have happened of course if the O-X boss hadn't gone off locking for a new pass through the mountains. Nor if the girl up at the house had returned Gus Ball's esteem.... Curt took up the rear-guard to hold off the attack. US BALL said to Curt Litile, “Come on now, Curt, get the B lead out.” Curt was whittling. As usual. tunkered all down in front of the wooden stoop of the bunkshack, with the blazing hot sun on his back. His Gus enjoyed a few hands of poker thin tan shirt wasn’t wet between the with the boys every so often. Not shoulder blades. On any other man it Curt. Curt never touched the paste- would have been, boards. Gus liked the girl up at the house. In other words, Curt Little and Curt didn’t. Curt didn’t seem to like Gus Ball didn’t agree about anything. any girls. Nor, for that matter, did Curt Little 19 eonnicbooks.cont