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Big Book Western, Vol. 8, No. 3

1940 · Free to read

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About this issue

Big-Book Western Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 3, October 1940, features two complete book-length novels and accompanying shorter fiction. "Lost City of Desert Death" by Harry F. Olmsted follows Arch Courier, a prison-discharged drifter leading a caravan across the Mexican desert to the Aztec temple Fuente Grande, seeking fortune amid a mountain of gold while confronting the temple's deadly history. "From Hell to Texas" by Ed Earl Repp depicts Duffy Eildaire, branded a traitor when returning to his Texas hometown after Appomattox despite Northern acclaim as a hero. "Man-Tamer of Bushwhack Range" by H. S. M. Kemp features gunman Pete Wallace hired by the Circle M ranch. Accompanied by four western fact articles on frontier figures including Kit Carson and Bucky O'Neill, and stories by Jack Bloodhart, Don Huntley, and Hapsburg Liebe exploring outlaw redemption, duels, and frontier justice.

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