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Cabinet 16: Westerns: Guys & Guns

Tod Conrad, Hellcat You’re a Honey. Sydney: Horwitz, 1957. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9610.C65 H44

____, Hangtree Justice. Sydney: Transport Publishing, [1949]. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9610.C65 H36

Gunn Halliday, Next Stop Boothill. 1st ed. [Surry Hills, N.S.W.]: Cleveland, [1966]. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9611.H3424 N49

Tod Conrad wrote 21 westerns for Horwitz, and according to Graeme Flanagan in his Australian Vintage Paperback Guide (1994), Hellcat You’re a Honey was first printed in May 1957. Nine years earlier, Conrad, whose real name was Richard Wilkes-Hunter, wrote Laughing Guns for Transport Publishing. Their ‘Sporting Western’ series was usually a slim digest of 48 to 66 pages long and often contained both a novelette and a short story. In this instance, Conrad’s Hangtree Justice [1949] stands alone in this publication.

Cleveland Publishing had numerous ‘western’ imprints such as Big Horn, Condor, Sierra, and Santa Fe. Des R. Dunn, co-writer of the ‘Larry Kent’ detective novels, penned Next Stop Boothill, a Bison Western, under the very western-sounding name of Gunn Halliday.

Tod Conrad, Hellcat You’re a Honey. Sydney: Horwitz, 1957. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9610.C65 H44

____, Hangtree Justice. Sydney: Transport Publishing, [1949]. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9610.C65 H36

Gunn Halliday, Next Stop Boothill. 1st ed. [Surry Hills, N.S.W.]: Cleveland, [1966]. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9611.H3424 N49