As the magazine title indicated, each issue of this pulp contained two complete and unedited western books. Fiction House publishers, through their Flying Stories imprint, bought up the reprint rights to western books that had already seen publication in hardback book form, a practice which allowed them to obtain the previously-printed books much cheaper. Western authors such as Las Savage Jr., Dan Cushman, Bart Cassidy, Walker A. Tompkins, and W.C. Tuttle were featured in these rip-roaring tales of western action. The first of 2 Western Books was released in the Winter 1948 issue. Two complete books for a quarter was quite a bargain, and the magazine was popular with customers. It lasted for 19 issues, and printed the final magazine in the run with the Spring 1954 issue. 2 Western Books returns in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
The Hanging Hills
by Brad Ward
His violence-filled border days were behind him, but an Owl-hoot rep is tough to shed when holsters are tied neat for six-gun trouble.
Branded!
by Bart Cassidy
When Gerder’s gang roughed Drake’s fur, the claws he flashed were death-quick... and the spark in the eye was powder-born.