Famous Western, August 1953

August 1953, Volume 14, Number 4

This issue of Famous Western contains ten original western stories. The feature novelet "Mustang Venture" follows Tap and Betty, who choose swift death by bullets over starvation. Lee Floren's "Bullets for Boothill" distinguishes western gunplay from urban violence. "Rebels Don't Die" by W. Edmunds Claussen tracks Matt's final trail in San Simon. "The Gunhand's Turn" by Roe Richmond explores a gunman's moral reckoning. Brett Austin's "Two Were Outlaws" examines a prisoner's memories of betrayal. John T. Lynch's "Stairway to Death" presents a revenge narrative involving removed stairs. Additional stories include "Digger John, Medicine Man" and "Mustang Venture." Supporting content includes "Know Your West," a department by Harold Gluck addressing English ranch investors and cattle breeding theories, and "Man of Iron," a fact feature by E. E. Clement about frontier figure Al Sieber. The issue includes a reader correspondence section, "The Mail Pouch."