Hours of great reading await, with Western tales from some of the 19th and 20th century's most renowned authors, including Johnston McCulley (creator of Zorro), Robert E. Howard (famous for Conan the Barbarian), and Clarence E. Mulford (creator of Hopalong Cassidy), and many more! HIS KIND OF HELLION, by Johnston McCulley TEXAS JOHN ALDEN, by Robert E. Howard THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT, by Bret Harte THIEVES OF BLACK ROCK DESERT, by Bill Anson THE RATTLER ROUNDUP, by Lee Bond LEFT FER THE BUZZARDS, by Allan R. Bosworth HORSESHOES AREN’T ALWAYS LUCKY, by Sam Brant GUN-WHIPPED! by Carmony Gove A 22-GUN RANGER WALKS, by Raymond S. Spears RANGER STYLE, by J. Allan Dunn PLUMB AMUSING, by Jackson Cole NO REPORT, by S. Omar Barker EL TIRO DI GRACIA, by Colin Cameron THE PHILOSOPHY OF GRAY EACLE, by Wolcott LeClear Beard SIXGUNS TO BOWIE, by Robert J. Hogan DESERT JUDGMENT, by E. Hoffmann Price THE TRAIL TRAP, by T.W. Ford GUN-QUEEN OF THE SPANISH GRANT, by Joseph Chadwick HOPALONG’S HOP, by Clarence E. Mulford DEMONS OF DISASTER, by Johnston McCulley WAR ON BEAR CREEK, by Robert E. Howard BRAND OF THE RED WARRIOR, by Ike Boone FETCH ME BRANNON’S EARS, by Seven Anderton THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP, by Bret Harte INVITATION BY BULLET, by Ernest Haycox
Author
Johnston McCulley (February 2, 1883 – November 23, 1958) was the author of hundreds of stories, fifty novels, numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro. Many of his novels and stories were written under the pseudonyms Harrington Strong, Raley Brien, George Drayne, Monica Morton, Rowena Raley, Frederic Phelps, Walter Pierson, and John Mack Stone, among others. McCulley started as a police reporter for The Police Gazette and served as an Army public affairs officer during World War I. An amateur history buff, he went on to a career in pulp magazines and screenplays, often using a Southern California backdrop for his stories. Aside from Zorro, McCulley created many other pulp characters, including Black Star, The Spider, The Mongoose, and Thubway Tham. Many of McCulley's characters—The Green Ghost, The Thunderbolt, and The Crimson Clown—were inspirations for the masked heroes that have appeared in popular culture from McCulley's time to the present day. Born in Ottawa, Illinois, and raised in Chillicothe, Illinois, he died in 1958 in Los Angeles, California, aged 75. -wikipedia
