Thrilling Western, Vol. 38, No. 3

Catalog Description: Thrilling Western Magazine, March 1942 This issue features a complete novel and several action stories set in the American West. The lead fiction is "Wolf-Man of the Pecos" by Bradford Scott, a Texas Ranger adventure starring El Halcon battling unnamed "Black Forces" in the border country. Two action novelets follow: "Johnny Buys a Gun" by Orlando Rigoni, concerning a deadly peril at Bitter Water Springs, and "The Loaned Ranger" by Syl MacDowell, involving rustlers, a sheepherder, and a bear. Short stories include "Trouble on the Rail" by Donald Bayne Hobart, "Little Bitter" by Hapsburg Liebe about frontier homesteading, "Klondike Gold" by John A. Thompson featuring a revenge trail in Alaska, and "Straight and Narrow" by Paul Evan Lehman. The magazine includes regular western features and a reader service column, plus numerous period advertisements for correspondence education, insurance, and consumer products.