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Western Story Magazine

An action packed, Western Americana cover painting by the American illustrator Charles Durant, this appeared as the cover of the May 8, 1926 edition of Western Story Magazine. The scene is set on the main street of a Wild West frontier town as a robber on horseback grabs a bag from a fellow outlaw, the town’s grizzled inhabitants looking on […]

The Heist

Artist: Charles Durant

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, Charles Durant, Golden Age, magazine cover, original illustration art, pulp, Street & Smith, western americana, Western Story Magazine
Added to Gallery: January 20, 2016

An action packed, Western Americana pulp cover painting by George H. Wert, which was commissioned and used by Street & Smith publishers for the July 9, 1927 edition of Western Story Magazine. A square jaw ranch-hand rustles a group of steer while casually smoking a cig, one of the classic cowboy images that inspired the Marlboro Man. Created with […]

The Stampede

Artist: George H. Wert

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, George H. Wert, magazine cover, Old West, original cover art, original illustration art, pulp, western, Western Story Magazine
Added to Gallery: January 4, 2016

 

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