Top Western Fiction Annual

Museum Catalog Note This 1958 Western Fiction Annual, Volume 3, Number 3, collects eight short stories and novelette by established pulp authors. Louis L'Amour's novelette "Lost Mountain" features Riley Branam, a young outlaw attempting to escape his past. "The Cheat" by William L. Jackson deals with a ranch boss's son who uses a two-headed coin to shirk trail-drive duties before his father discovers the deception. Other stories include Wayne D. Overholser's "Outlaw with a Star," Leslie Ernenwein's "Tinhorn Hero," and Ray Gaulden's "Boom Town Trouble-Shooter." Joseph Chadwick contributes "Measure Your Man," while Ben Frank and Jim Mayo provide "The Shifting Odds" and "Mistakes Can Kill You" respectively. The issue also contains poems and an editorial, with contributing editors including S. Omar Barker, Mary Taylor, and Frederick Ebright. Magazine advertisements promote home-study Radio-TV training and business opportunities including a furniture-cleaning franchise.