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Cabinet 16: Westerns: Guys & Guns

G. C. Bleeck, Heritage of Hate. North Sydney: Action Comics, [1957]. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9610.B63 H47

Frank Clune, Dark Outlaw. Sydney: Invincible Press, [1945]. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9610.C58 D3 1945

Panhandle Hennell, Six-gun Saloon-keeper. Sydney: Transport Publishing, [195-?]. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9610.H36 S59

G. C. Bleeck wrote many westerns under the name ‘Johnnie Nelson’, but with Heritage of Hate he used his own name. Bleeck spent about three hours writing each day, and once offered advice on the business: ‘Don’t [write]—unless you are prepared to risk a lot of disappointment, for weeks, months, possibly years; and [are] prepared to find your best efforts come homing back like well-trained pigeons.’

Frank (Francis) Clune (1893-1971), travel writer and adventurer, penned this Invincible Press edition of Dark Outlaw in 1945. Clune was fascinated by the outsiders of Australian history, and his account of ‘Darkie’ Gardiner, a real-life gunman and bandit, makes history live. And with perhaps the best first name in the western business, Panhandle (Stanford) Hennell wrote his Six-gun Saloon-keeper for Transport Publishing’s ‘Powdersmoke Western’ series.

G. C. Bleeck, Heritage of Hate. North Sydney: Action Comics, [1957]. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9610.B63 H47

Frank Clune, Dark Outlaw. Sydney: Invincible Press, [1945]. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9610.C58 D3 1945

Panhandle Hennell, Six-gun Saloon-keeper. Sydney: Transport Publishing, [195-?]. Pulp Literature Special Collections PR9610.H36 S59