Books by Robert J. Horton and Complete Book Reviews
Robert J. Horton, Author Five Star (ME) $25.95 (252p) ISBN 978-1-59414-507-0
Horton, along with contemporaries Max Brand and Zane Grey, was a popular writer of western adventure novels that idealized the Old West's rugged codes. In this 1927 reprint, available in paperback for the first time, Jess Sneed, rancher, gunslinger...
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Robert J. Horton. Five Star, $25.95 (218p) ISBN 978-1-4328-2518-8
Amid much of the dross of the western pulps of the 1920s and '30s, some clever books appeared, like this re-issue by Horton (1889–1943), a reformed sports writer who made a name for himself with westerns built on suspense and smart plots. This...
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Robert J. Horton. Five Star, $25.95 (200p) ISBN 978-1-4328-2632-1
Five Star’s 10th pulp western from Horton (1888–1934) is really two interconnected short novels originally published in Western Story magazine in 1925, when pulp westerns—a genre marked by simple plots, chaste romance, and action—reigned. Part one...
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