{"product_id":"wordslingers-will-murray-9781618270856","title":"Wordslingers: An Epitaph for the Western","description":"The Writers of the Purple Wage have long since taken the last trail into dusty memory. But, now, they live again--to retell tall tales of those distant days when they helped forge the fabled West of American Imagination. They're all here  * The POPULAR hacks  * The SPICY bestsellers  * The THRILLING myths  Those amazing million-words-a-year men  True Westerners born on the Range  Broadway cowboys never West of Hoboken  Join MAX BRAND, LUKE SHORT, JOHNSTON McCULLEY, ERNEST HAYCOX, WALT COBURN, FRANK GRUBER, RYERSON JOHNSON, \u0026amp; a hard-working, fast-drawing posse of freelance fictioneers  And those two-fisted foremen of New York's fiction factories-magazine editors FRANK BLACKWELL, ROGERS TERRILL, LEO MARGULIES, ROBERT LOWNDES \u0026amp; FANNY ELLSWORTH  Together, IN THEIR OWN WORDS, these veteran pulpsters \u0026amp; others offer startling inside stories of how they created the mythology of the Golden West  * Blazing action  Savage characterization  Real emotion  Ride with the Old West's top gunhands, greatest pulpsmiths \u0026amp; legendary brands. From BUFFALO BILL, DEADWOOD DICK \u0026amp; HOPALONG CASSIDY to GUNSMOKE \u0026amp; LOUIS L'AMOUR, this is their saga. Armed with forgotten interviews, controversial essays \u0026amp; candid letters first not seen in generations, acclaimed pulp historian Will Murray, author of The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage. reveals the epic life \u0026amp; frequent deaths of the Pulp West  WORDSLINGERS: AN EPITAPH FOR THE WESTERN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Will Murray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1618270850\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781618270856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Altus Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.92d","brand":"Will Murray","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44067824304383,"sku":"9781618270856","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa094312-2a56-491d-b955-6236773726f4.jpg?v=1685415549","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wordslingers-will-murray-9781618270856","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}