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Walt Coburn

December 07, 2023

Walter John Coburn (October 23, 1889 – May 1971) was an American writer of Westerns. Coburn was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana Territory, the son of Robert Coburn Senior, the founder of the noted Circle C Ranch located south of Malta.[1]

Coburn served in the Army aviation corps during the World War I era.[2] He later spent time as a cowboy and a surveyor, before becoming a full-time writer in the 1920s.

Western author edit

Coburn began his career with Western stories in general fiction pulp magazines such as Adventure and Argosy.[3] Later Coburn moved on to pulps specializing in Westerns, including Western Story Magazine, Lariat Story Magazine, Ace-High Western and Frontier Stories.[4] He often wrote for the Fiction House pulp magazines, which promoted Coburn as "the Cowboy Author".[5]

Coburn was enormously prolific; Flanagan states Coburn wrote almost two million words of fiction over a thirty year period.[1] Coburn at his most prolific, averaged over 600,000 published words per year.[6] He was so popular that eventually, two pulp magazines - Walt Coburn’s Western Magazine and Walt Coburn’s Action Novels were issued, consisting mainly of reprints of Coburn's work.[3]

After the pulps ended in the 1950s, Coburn switched his focus to writing paperback originals.[3]

Coburn was a devout Christian. Coburn claimed, in his posthumously published autobiography Western Word Wrangler (1973) that God had chosen him to spread the Christian message through his fiction.[1]

Coburn committed suicide at age 82 in Prescott, Arizona.[6]

Bibliography edit

Stories edit

  • The Ringtailed Rannyhans (1927)
  • Mavericks (1929)
  • Barb Wire (1931)
  • Walt Coburn's action novels; four western novels (1931)
  • The Passing of Poker Joe (Dime Western Magazine 1933-02)
  • Son of a Gun Man (Dime Western Magazine 1933-03)
  • Guns beyond the Border (Dime Western Magazine 1933-10)
  • Brand of the Badlands (Dime Western Magazine 1933-12)
  • Outlawed! (Dime Western Magazine 1934-01)
  • The Hoot-Owl Pool (Dime Western Magazine 1934-02)
  • The Hell Creek Maverick (Dime Western Magazine 1934-03)
  • Cowman's Law (Dime Western Magazine 1934-04)
  • Outlawed Orphan (Dime Western Magazine 1934-05)
  • Maverick Men (Dime Western Magazine 1934-06)
  • The Death Maverick (Dime Western Magazine 1934-07)
  • Men of the Dark Trails (Dime Western Magazine 1934-08)
  • Rim-Rock Renegades (Dime Western Magazine 1934-09-01)
  • Black Outlaw (Dime Western Magazine 1934-10-01)
  • Renegade Law (Dime Western Magazine 1934-10-15)
  • Brand Blotters' Blood Tally (Dime Western Magazine 1934-11-01)
  • The Rio Renegade (Dime Western Magazine 1934-12-15)
  • Creed of the Lawless (Dime Western Magazine 1935-01-01)
  • Satan's Saddle Mates (Dime Western Magazine 1935-02-15)
  • Ghost Guns of Black Coulee (Dime Western Magazine 1935-03-01)
  • The Rolling-R Rides to Glory (Dime Western Magazine 1935-04-01)
  • Badlands Orphan (Dime Western Magazine 1935-04-15)
  • Six Gringos Ride to Hell (Dime Western Magazine 1935-05-01)
  • Branded Men (Dime Western Magazine 1935-05-15)
  • Hate for a Lawman (Dime Western Magazine 1935-06-01)
  • Feud Guns of Brady's Basin (Dime Western Magazine 1935-06-15)
  • The Partner of Buckshot Blue (Dime Western Magazine 1935-07-01)
  • Wanted Man's Gamble (Dime Western Magazine 1935-07-15)
  • Badlands Lawman (Dime Western Magazine 1935-08-01)
  • Son of the Owlhoot (Dime Western Magazine 1935-08-15)
  • The Law Rides to Wolf Hole (Dime Western Magazine 1935-09-01)
  • Tom Ball--Gun-Doctor (Dime Western Magazine 1935-10-01)
  • Gunsmoke Born (Dime Western Magazine 1935-10-15)
  • Wild-Bunch Lawman (Dime Western Magazine 1935-11-01)
  • Gun Ghosts of Skull Creek (Dime Western Magazine 1935-12-01)
  • Vigilante Vengeance (Dime Western Magazine 1936-02)
  • Wild Men in Buckskin (Dime Western Magazine 1936-03)
  • Missouri River Renegade (Dime Western Magazine 1936-04)
  • Six-Gun Quarantine (Dime Western Magazine 1936-05)
  • The Dead-Game Tinhorn (Dime Western Magazine 1936-06)
  • The Badlands Vigilante (Dime Western Magazine 1936-07)
  • The Button rides to War (Dime Western Magazine 1936-08)
  • Trail Herd to Perdition (Dime Western Magazine 1936-09)
  • The Wagon Train Feud (Dime Western Magazine 1936-10)
  • A New Marshall for Pinto (Dime Western Magazine 1936-11)
  • Gun Cub of the Black Wolf (Dime Western Magazine 1937-01)
  • Blind Man's Gun Bluff (Dime Western Magazine 1937-02)
  • Straw Boss for the Damned (Dime Western Magazine 1937-03)
  • A Renegade rules the S-C Ranch (Dime Western Magazine 1937-04)
  • Death rides with the Black Fergusons (Dime Western Magazine 1937-05)
  • The Gringo who wouldn't die (Dime Western Magazine 1937-06)
  • Last Stand of the Gila Pool Cowmen (Dime Western Magazine 1937-07)
  • Lone Wolf of the Feud Pack (Dime Western Magazine 1937-09)
  • The Raw Red Trail to Dodge! (Dime Western Magazine 1937-10)
  • Trail Herd's Gunsmoke Market (Dime Western Magazine 1937-11)
  • Sun Prairie's Powdersmoke Revival (Dime Western Magazine 1937-12)
  • Guns break trail for a Texan's Herd (Dime Western Magazine 1938-01)
  • Death waits West of Dodge (Dime Western Magazine 1938-02)
  • Rawhide, Gunsmoke--and Texas Cattle! (Dime Western Magazine 1938-03)
  • Stepson of the Wild Bunch (Dime Western Magazine 1938-04)
  • His Partner, the Gun Ghost (Dime Western Magazine 1938-05)
  • The Badlands send[s] a Fighting Man (Dime Western Magazine 1938-06)
  • Signed on to die! (Dime Western Magazine 1938-07)
  • Fear God and shoot straight! (Dime Western Magazine 1938-08)
  • The Owlhoot makes a Cowman (Dime Western Magazine 1938-09)
  • Doc Masters' last gun deal (Dime Western Magazine 1938-10)
  • The Gunsmoke Cub finds a Brand (Dime Western Magazine 1938-11)
  • Recruit for the Hang-Noose Syndicate (Dime Western Magazine 1938-12)
  • The Trail Drive God forgot (Dime Western Magazine 1939-01)
  • Breaking of the Horse-Thief Pool (Dime Western Magazine 1939-02)
  • Gun Call for Wind River Riders (Dime Western Magazine 1939-03)
  • The Square Dealer of Last Chance (Dime Western Magazine 1939-04)
  • Gunsmoke Bonus for Stolen Beef (Dime Western Magazine 1939-05)
  • Button Brewster rides to war (Dime Western Magazine 1939-06)
  • Lon Pike's last Gunsmoke Sermon (Dime Western Magazine 1939-07)
  • Marked with Satan's Road-Brand (Dime Western Magazine 1939-08)
  • The Summer of the Black Snow (Dime Western Magazine 1939-09)
  • Free Bullets for the Quick-Grave Legion (Dime Western Magazine 1939-10)
  • Gun Guide for Satan's Border-Jumpers (Dime Western Magazine 1939-11)
  • Gray Wool brings Gunsmoke (Dime Western Magazine 1939-12)
  • War Smoke guides the Western Mails (Dime Western Magazine 1940-01)
  • New Graves at Hide-Out Ranch (Dime Western Magazine 1940-02)
  • Gunsmoke Key to the Padlocked Deadline (Dime Western Magazine 1940-03)
  • Too Soft for the Owlhoot (Dime Western Magazine 1940-04)
  • Gun Partners of the Overland Mail (Dime Western Magazine 1940-05)
  • Smoke McGonigal's last Gun-Chore (Dime Western Magazine 1940-06)
  • Gun-Call for Buckskin Warriors (Dime Western Magazine 1940-07)
  • A Greenhorn rides the Death Watch (Dime Western Magazine 1940-09)
  • The Bear-Paw Man-Breaker (Dime Western Magazine 1940-10)
  • The Fighting Flaggs ride at Midnight! (Dime Western Magazine 1940-11)
  • The Mad Gunman of Wolf Tooth Point (Dime Western Magazine 1940-12)
  • Law Rides the Range (1935)
  • Sky-Pilot Cowboy (1937)
  • Hired to Kill (Dime Western Magazine 1945-12)
  • Pardners of the Dim Trails (1951) (vt: Tough Texan)
  • The Way of a Texan (1953)
  • Drift Fence (1953)
  • The Burnt Ranch (1954)
  • Gun Grudge (1955)
  • Wet Cattle (1955) (vt: Violent Maverick)
  • The Square Shooter (1956)
  • Border Jumper (1956)
  • The Night Branders (1956)
  • One Step Ahead of the Posse (1956)
  • Cayuse (1956)
  • Stirrup High (1957)
  • Fear Branded (1957)
  • Horse Thief Trail (1957)
  • Spider-Web Ridge (1958)
  • Beyond the Wild Missouri (1958)
  • Buffalo Run (1958) (vt: Fast Gun)
  • Free Rangers (1959)
  • Dark and Bloody Ground (1960)
  • Guns Blaze on Spiderweb Range (1961)
  • Invitation to a Hanging (1963)
  • Ramrod (1963)
  • Branded (1963)
  • Sons of Gunfighters (1963)
  • The Kansas Killers (1966)
  • Feud Valley (1969)
  • The Renegade (1969)
  • La Jornada (1971)
  • Sleeper's Mark (1990)
  • Showdown Mesa (1992)
  • Coffin Ranch : a western trio (1998; edited by Jon Tuska).

Non-fiction edit

  • Pioneer Cattleman in Montana: Story of the Circle C Ranch (1968)
  • Western Word Wrangler (1973)

References edit

  1. ^ a b c John D. Flanagan, "Coburn, Walt", in Twentieth Century Western Writers, edited by Geoff Sadler. St. James Press, 1991, ISBN 0-912289-98-8 , (pages 129-34)
  2. ^ "Walter Coburn, Writer of "Westerns" Arrives Here", Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona, volume LXV, number 298, October 25, 1934, page 6.
  3. ^ a b c Lee Server, "Coburn, Walt" in Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers. Facts on File, 2002 ISBN 978-0-8160-4578-5 (pp. 65-66)
  4. ^ Jon Tuska, The Western Story: A Chronological Treasury, University of Nebraska Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-8032-9439-4 (page xxviii).
  5. ^ Jon Tuska, Star Western, Gramercy Books, 1995, ISBN 0-517-14688-6 (page 132).
  6. ^ a b "Walt Coburn Papers". Special Collections at the University of Arizona Libraries. University of Arizona. Retrieved 3 April 2017.

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Walter John Coburn October 23 1889 May 1971 was an American writer of Westerns Coburn was born in White Sulphur Springs Montana Territory the son of Robert Coburn Senior the founder of the noted Circle C Ranch located south of Malta 1 Coburn served in the Army aviation corps during the World War I era 2 He later spent time as a cowboy and a surveyor before becoming a full time writer in the 1920s Contents 1 Western author 2 Bibliography 2 1 Stories 2 2 Non fiction 3 ReferencesWestern author editCoburn began his career with Western stories in general fiction pulp magazines such as Adventure and Argosy 3 Later Coburn moved on to pulps specializing in Westerns including Western Story Magazine Lariat Story Magazine Ace High Western and Frontier Stories 4 He often wrote for the Fiction House pulp magazines which promoted Coburn as the Cowboy Author 5 Coburn was enormously prolific Flanagan states Coburn wrote almost two million words of fiction over a thirty year period 1 Coburn at his most prolific averaged over 600 000 published words per year 6 He was so popular that eventually two pulp magazines Walt Coburn s Western Magazine and Walt Coburn s Action Novels were issued consisting mainly of reprints of Coburn s work 3 After the pulps ended in the 1950s Coburn switched his focus to writing paperback originals 3 Coburn was a devout Christian Coburn claimed in his posthumously published autobiography Western Word Wrangler 1973 that God had chosen him to spread the Christian message through his fiction 1 Coburn committed suicide at age 82 in Prescott Arizona 6 Bibliography editStories edit The Ringtailed Rannyhans 1927 Mavericks 1929 Barb Wire 1931 Walt Coburn s action novels four western novels 1931 The Passing of Poker Joe Dime Western Magazine 1933 02 Son of a Gun Man Dime Western Magazine 1933 03 Guns beyond the Border Dime Western Magazine 1933 10 Brand of the Badlands Dime Western Magazine 1933 12 Outlawed Dime Western Magazine 1934 01 The Hoot Owl Pool Dime Western Magazine 1934 02 The Hell Creek Maverick Dime Western Magazine 1934 03 Cowman s Law Dime Western Magazine 1934 04 Outlawed Orphan Dime Western Magazine 1934 05 Maverick Men Dime Western Magazine 1934 06 The Death Maverick Dime Western Magazine 1934 07 Men of the Dark Trails Dime Western Magazine 1934 08 Rim Rock Renegades Dime Western Magazine 1934 09 01 Black Outlaw Dime Western Magazine 1934 10 01 Renegade Law Dime Western Magazine 1934 10 15 Brand Blotters Blood Tally Dime Western Magazine 1934 11 01 The Rio Renegade Dime Western Magazine 1934 12 15 Creed of the Lawless Dime Western Magazine 1935 01 01 Satan s Saddle Mates Dime Western Magazine 1935 02 15 Ghost Guns of Black Coulee Dime Western Magazine 1935 03 01 The Rolling R Rides to Glory Dime Western Magazine 1935 04 01 Badlands Orphan Dime Western Magazine 1935 04 15 Six Gringos Ride to Hell Dime Western Magazine 1935 05 01 Branded Men Dime Western Magazine 1935 05 15 Hate for a Lawman Dime Western Magazine 1935 06 01 Feud Guns of Brady s Basin Dime Western Magazine 1935 06 15 The Partner of Buckshot Blue Dime Western Magazine 1935 07 01 Wanted Man s Gamble Dime Western Magazine 1935 07 15 Badlands Lawman Dime Western Magazine 1935 08 01 Son of the Owlhoot Dime Western Magazine 1935 08 15 The Law Rides to Wolf Hole Dime Western Magazine 1935 09 01 Tom Ball Gun Doctor Dime Western Magazine 1935 10 01 Gunsmoke Born Dime Western Magazine 1935 10 15 Wild Bunch Lawman Dime Western Magazine 1935 11 01 Gun Ghosts of Skull Creek Dime Western Magazine 1935 12 01 Vigilante Vengeance Dime Western Magazine 1936 02 Wild Men in Buckskin Dime Western Magazine 1936 03 Missouri River Renegade Dime Western Magazine 1936 04 Six Gun Quarantine Dime Western Magazine 1936 05 The Dead Game Tinhorn Dime Western Magazine 1936 06 The Badlands Vigilante Dime Western Magazine 1936 07 The Button rides to War Dime Western Magazine 1936 08 Trail Herd to Perdition Dime Western Magazine 1936 09 The Wagon Train Feud Dime Western Magazine 1936 10 A New Marshall for Pinto Dime Western Magazine 1936 11 Gun Cub of the Black Wolf Dime Western Magazine 1937 01 Blind Man s Gun Bluff Dime Western Magazine 1937 02 Straw Boss for the Damned Dime Western Magazine 1937 03 A Renegade rules the S C Ranch Dime Western Magazine 1937 04 Death rides with the Black Fergusons Dime Western Magazine 1937 05 The Gringo who wouldn t die Dime Western Magazine 1937 06 Last Stand of the Gila Pool Cowmen Dime Western Magazine 1937 07 Lone Wolf of the Feud Pack Dime Western Magazine 1937 09 The Raw Red Trail to Dodge Dime Western Magazine 1937 10 Trail Herd s Gunsmoke Market Dime Western Magazine 1937 11 Sun Prairie s Powdersmoke Revival Dime Western Magazine 1937 12 Guns break trail for a Texan s Herd Dime Western Magazine 1938 01 Death waits West of Dodge Dime Western Magazine 1938 02 Rawhide Gunsmoke and Texas Cattle Dime Western Magazine 1938 03 Stepson of the Wild Bunch Dime Western Magazine 1938 04 His Partner the Gun Ghost Dime Western Magazine 1938 05 The Badlands send s a Fighting Man Dime Western Magazine 1938 06 Signed on to die Dime Western Magazine 1938 07 Fear God and shoot straight Dime Western Magazine 1938 08 The Owlhoot makes a Cowman Dime Western Magazine 1938 09 Doc Masters last gun deal Dime Western Magazine 1938 10 The Gunsmoke Cub finds a Brand Dime Western Magazine 1938 11 Recruit for the Hang Noose Syndicate Dime Western Magazine 1938 12 The Trail Drive God forgot Dime Western Magazine 1939 01 Breaking of the Horse Thief Pool Dime Western Magazine 1939 02 Gun Call for Wind River Riders Dime Western Magazine 1939 03 The Square Dealer of Last Chance Dime Western Magazine 1939 04 Gunsmoke Bonus for Stolen Beef Dime Western Magazine 1939 05 Button Brewster rides to war Dime Western Magazine 1939 06 Lon Pike s last Gunsmoke Sermon Dime Western Magazine 1939 07 Marked with Satan s Road Brand Dime Western Magazine 1939 08 The Summer of the Black Snow Dime Western Magazine 1939 09 Free Bullets for the Quick Grave Legion Dime Western Magazine 1939 10 Gun Guide for Satan s Border Jumpers Dime Western Magazine 1939 11 Gray Wool brings Gunsmoke Dime Western Magazine 1939 12 War Smoke guides the Western Mails Dime Western Magazine 1940 01 New Graves at Hide Out Ranch Dime Western Magazine 1940 02 Gunsmoke Key to the Padlocked Deadline Dime Western Magazine 1940 03 Too Soft for the Owlhoot Dime Western Magazine 1940 04 Gun Partners of the Overland Mail Dime Western Magazine 1940 05 Smoke McGonigal s last Gun Chore Dime Western Magazine 1940 06 Gun Call for Buckskin Warriors Dime Western Magazine 1940 07 A Greenhorn rides the Death Watch Dime Western Magazine 1940 09 The Bear Paw Man Breaker Dime Western Magazine 1940 10 The Fighting Flaggs ride at Midnight Dime Western Magazine 1940 11 The Mad Gunman of Wolf Tooth Point Dime Western Magazine 1940 12 Law Rides the Range 1935 Sky Pilot Cowboy 1937 Hired to Kill Dime Western Magazine 1945 12 Pardners of the Dim Trails 1951 vt Tough Texan The Way of a Texan 1953 Drift Fence 1953 The Burnt Ranch 1954 Gun Grudge 1955 Wet Cattle 1955 vt Violent Maverick The Square Shooter 1956 Border Jumper 1956 The Night Branders 1956 One Step Ahead of the Posse 1956 Cayuse 1956 Stirrup High 1957 Fear Branded 1957 Horse Thief Trail 1957 Spider Web Ridge 1958 Beyond the Wild Missouri 1958 Buffalo Run 1958 vt Fast Gun Free Rangers 1959 Dark and Bloody Ground 1960 Guns Blaze on Spiderweb Range 1961 Invitation to a Hanging 1963 Ramrod 1963 Branded 1963 Sons of Gunfighters 1963 The Kansas Killers 1966 Feud Valley 1969 The Renegade 1969 La Jornada 1971 Sleeper s Mark 1990 Showdown Mesa 1992 Coffin Ranch a western trio 1998 edited by Jon Tuska Non fiction edit Pioneer Cattleman in Montana Story of the Circle C Ranch 1968 Western Word Wrangler 1973 References edit a b c John D Flanagan Coburn Walt in Twentieth Century Western Writers edited by Geoff Sadler St James Press 1991 ISBN 0 912289 98 8 pages 129 34 Walter Coburn Writer of Westerns Arrives Here Tucson Daily Citizen Tucson Arizona volume LXV number 298 October 25 1934 page 6 a b c Lee Server Coburn Walt in Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers Facts on File 2002 ISBN 978 0 8160 4578 5 pp 65 66 Jon Tuska The Western Story A Chronological Treasury University of Nebraska Press 1999 ISBN 978 0 8032 9439 4 page xxviii Jon Tuska Star Western Gramercy Books 1995 ISBN 0 517 14688 6 page 132 a b Walt Coburn Papers Special Collections at the University of Arizona Libraries University of Arizona Retrieved 3 April 2017 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Walt Coburn amp oldid 1117280359, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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