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Pulp Writer

From the back cover of Pulp Writer:

He wrote under at least eight pseudonyms, published hundreds of short stories and novellas in pulp magazines, and lived a life at times as outrageous as his fiction. Pulp Writer tells of Paul S. Powers’ travels from serious literary ambitions to the pages of Wild West Weekly, of his seeking his fortune (or material, at any rate) in the ghost towns and mining camps of Colorado, and of his life in Arizona and California as he reaped the rewards of his wildly successful Wild West Weekly characters such as Sonny Tabor and Kid Wolf.

Extending from the Great Depression to the golden age of the pulps, Powers’ career, chronicled here in often laugh-out-loud style, is an American success story of true grit and commercial savvy and of a larger-than-life character with questionable but endlessly entertaining Western lore to spare. In the process, he provides a valuable and rarely-chronicled look at the business of writing and publishing pulp fiction during its golden years.

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Desert Justice: A Sonny Tabor Quartet
Five Star; Waterville, Maine.
2005

Sonny Tabor was arguably one of the Wild West Weekly’s most popular characters. He was an outlaw relentlessly pursued for the reward being offered for his capture. But Sonny Tabor was wrongfully accused, forced into a life of continual flight. Readers loved Sonny for his boyish looks, his kindness towards his amazing Pinto horse Paint, his sense of humor, and his determination to always fight for what’s right, even if it meant putting his own life in danger.

Desert Justice is a compilation of four Sonny Tabor stories from Wild West Weekly, written by Paul Powers under his pseudonym Ward M. Stevens. It includes the first story, “The Eleventh Notch,” which appeared in 1929. Other stories are “Sonny Tabor’s Gun School” (1930), “Sonny Tabor and the Border Blackbirds” (1938), and “Kid Wolf Rounds up Sonny Tabor” (1935).

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Kid Wolf of Texas, A Western Story
Center Point Publishing; Thorndike, Maine.
2006

Kid Wolf was another one of Powers’ most popular Wild West Weekly characters. A defender of the underdog, Kid had the musical drawl of the Deep South and the manners of a true southern gentleman. But he was not to be contended with, as his enemies found out. His friends called him “Kid,” but to his enemies, he was better known as “Wolf.”

Originally published in 1930 by Chelsea House under Paul Power’s pseudonym, Ward M. Stevens, Kid Wolf of Texas is a compilation of four Kid Wolf stories originally published in Wild West Weekly. Now, for the first time, it is available in a large print book.


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