America's expansion into the wild, wild West gave us many wonderful things. Sadly, most of these things are not helpful to you if you are a writer (though as a book coach, I sometimes think that spurs would be useful).
That said, the West did give writers "back in the day" something helpful: a living. The colorful Western tales published in pulp books and magazines helped many a starving writer keep the proverbial wolf (or perhaps I should say coyote) from the door. Sadly, pulp magazines, like Conestoga wagons, are little in evidence today, and the relentless changes of popular taste has replaced genre Westerns with newer themes, such as vampires. (Want to do a vampire Western, anybody?)
In remembrance of two noble, now vanished breeds—the pulp-fictional cowboy and the real live writer of pulp Westerns—today's film-ette celebrates the cowboy mags of a vanished era, complete with perfect soundtrack. To my delight, after doing some searching around on the name "bestjonbon," which was given as the creator credit for this piece YouTube, I discovered that it was created...by a writer! John Lee is clearly a many-talented guy. And perhaps goofy YouTube videos are in some way the pulp art of the future?
Anyway, tie your Appaloosa to the hitchin' post, march those cowboy boots into the saloon, plug any varmints who bother you with lead, and enjoy.
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