Texas Western, May 1953

This May 1953 issue of Texas Western contains two featured Western novellas and four short stories of action and crime. The lead novel, "Brush Rider" by Dean Owen, concerns a Texas widow and a handsome stranger whose arrival creates entanglements involving cattle rustling and dangerous wild longhorns in the brasada. Frank C. Robertson's "Rough Roundup" novella presents a murder mystery with a body in the mud, a vengeful Indian father, and seventy suspects hungry for trouble. Short stories include "Range Your Corpse" by W.P. Brothers, Marcel Swinski's adventure by Bob and Jan Young, H.A. DeRosso's "Slow Joe Winter" tale, and Ellis Sloan's "Sundown," exploring father-son reconciliation. Non-fiction features discuss cattle rustlers, trail scouting, and frontier themes. The magazine also contains advertisements for correspondence courses in radio-television repair and business advancement, and a puzzle contest offering cash prizes and watches.